Telegraph

teKe-graf, n. An apparatus, or a proce , for communicating intelligence rapidly between distant points by means of preconcerted visible or audible signals representing words or ideas, or esp. by means of marks, sounds, or visible tokens produced ity by electric which has been mitted trans through a wir e; a telegraphic c o mmuni cation; telegram. — v. graphed t. [tele- (-graft), -GRAPH- ING.] To convey or announce Morse's Telegraph. graph. — Tel'egraph'er, «. A telegraphic operator; by tele telegraphist. — Tel'egraph'ic. -ical, a. Of, or pert, to, the telegraph: made, or communicated by, a telemilk graph. — Telegraphist, te-leg'ru-fist or tel'e-graf'ist, n. One who operates on a telegraph; a telegraphic operator; telegrapher. — Teleg'raphy, -ra-fi, n. Science or art of constructing, or of communicating by useful means of, telegraphs.— TeKegram, n. A me age sent busiby telegraph; a telegraphic dispatch. — Telephone, -e-fon, n. An instrument for transmitting sounds, esp. articulate speech, to a distance, bv means of elecexetricity and telegraphic wires.— Telephon'ic, -fon'ic, fare; end, eve, term; In, ice; Sdd, tone, 8r » a. Conveying sound to a great distance; far-sounding; of, or pert, to, the telephone. — Tel'escope, sk5p, n. An optical instrument for viewing distant Astronomical Telescope. A B, object-gla ; C D, converging eye-gla ; P G, distant object; H K, image of the object; eye at E. objects, as the heavenly bodies. — v. i. To run into one another, like the slides of a pocket telescope, said esp. of colliding railroad cars. — Tel'escop'ic, -ical, -skOp'ik-al, o. Pert, to, or performed by, a telescope; seen or discoverable only by a telescope; able to discern objects at a distance; far-seeing; having the power of extension by joints sliding one within another, like the tube of a pocket telescope. 453