Letter

1. Verbal expression; literal statement or meaning; exact signification or requirement.
2. To impress with letters; to mark with letters or words; as, a book gilt and lettered.
3. Learning; erudition; as, a man of letters.
4. A letter; an epistle.
5. A mark or character used as the representative of a sound, or of an articulation of the human organs of speech; a first element of written language.
6. A writing; an inscription.
7. One who retards or hinders.
8. One who lets or permits; one who lets anything for hire.
9. A single type; type, collectively; a style of type.
10. A written or printed communication; a message expressed in intelligible characters on something adapted to conveyance, as paper, parchment, etc.; an epistle.