braille

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

braille, n. 

 A system of printing or writing for the blind in which the characters and numerals are represented by patterns of raised tangible points or dots. It was invented by Louis Braille, a French teacher of the blind.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

braille, v. 

 to transcribe in Braille.  [WordNet 1.5]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

braille, n. & v.
--n. a system of writing and printing for the blind, in which characters are represented by patterns of raised dots.
--v.tr. print or transcribe in Braille.

Etymology

L. Braille, Fr. teacher d. 1852, its inventor

THESAURUS

braille

Boston type, New York point, Optacon, Pathsounder, Seeing Eye dog, Visotoner, cane, embosser, guide dog, high-speed embosser, line letter, noctograph, optophone, personal sonar, sensory aid, sight-saver type, string alphabet, talking book, ultrasonic spectacles, visagraph, writing frame, writing stamps

ROGET THESAURUS

braille

Blindness

N blindness, cecity, excecation, amaurosis, cataract, ablepsy, ablepsia, prestriction, dim-sightedness, Braille, Braille-type, guttaserena (drop serene), noctograph, teichopsia, blind, eyeless, sightless, visionless, dark, stone-blind, sand- blind, stark-blind, undiscerning, dimsighted, blind as a bat, blind as a buzzard, blind as a beetle, blind as a mole, blind as an owl, wall-eyed, blinded, blindly, blindfold, blindfolded, darkly, O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon.