Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for IL-LEG'I-BLE
IL-LEG'I-BLE, a. [See Legible.]
That can not be read; obscure or defaced so that the words can not be known. It is a disgrace to a gentleman to write an illegible hand. The manuscripts found in the ruins of Herculaneum are mostly illegible
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