Hieroglyph

(noun.) a writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt.

(noun.) writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible).

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• Moreove r, they worked simple equations involving one unknown, and had a hieroglyph for a million (the drawing of a man overcome with wonder), and another for ten million. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Finally comes one of Tycho's hunting dogs--very faithful and sagacious; he serves here as a hieroglyph of his master's nobility as well as of sagacity and fidelity. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Did not an immortal physicist and interpreter of hieroglyphs write detestable verses? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

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