Inscription

n.	1.	The act or process of inscribing.
	2.	That which is inscribed; something written or engraved; especially, a word or words written or engraved on a solid substance for preservation or public inspection; as, inscriptions on monuments, pillars, coins, medals, etc.
	3.	(Anat.) A line of division or intersection; as, the tendinous inscriptions, or intersections, of a muscle.
	4.	An address, consignment, or informal dedication, as of a book to a person, as a mark of respect or an invitation of patronage.

Noun	1.	inscription - letters inscribed (especially words engraved or carved) on something Synonyms: lettering
	2.	inscription - a short message (as in a book or musical work or on a photograph) dedicating it to someone or something Synonyms: dedication
	3.	inscription - the activity of inscribing (especially carving or engraving) letters or words

INSCRIPTION, civil law. An engagement which a person, who makes a solemn accusation of a crime against another, enters into, that he will suffer the same punishment, if he has accused, the other falsely, which would have been inflicted upon him had he been guilty. Code, 9, 1, 10; Id. 9, 2, 16 and 17.

INSCRIPTION, evidence. Something written or engraved.
     2. Inscriptions upon tombstones and other proper places, as rings, and the like, are held to be evidence of pedigree. Bull. N. P. 233 Cowp. 591; 10 East, R. 120 13 Ves. 145 Vin. Ab. Ev. T. b. 87: 3 Stark. Ev. 116.

To see an inscription in your dream, foretells of bad and unpleasant news. To dream that you are writing an inscription, signifies loss of a valuable friend. To dream that you are reading an inscription on a tomb, signifies distress and sickness.acknowledgments, arch, back, back matter, barrow, bastard title, bibliography, booking, boundary stone, brass, burr, bust, cairn, cataloging, catch line, catchword, cenotaph, chiseling, chronicling, colophon, column, contents, contents page, copyright page, coup de plume, cromlech, cross, cross-hatching, cryptography, cup, cyclolith, dedication, demitint, device, dolmen, endleaf, endpaper, endsheet, engravement, engraving, engrossment, enlistment, enrollment, entering, entry, epigraph, epitaph, epithet, errata, etch, etching, flyleaf, folio, footstone, fore edge, foreword, front matter, gem-engraving, glass-cutting, glyptic, grave, gravestone, graving, half tint, half-title page, hatching, head, headstone, hic jacet, hoarstone, impanelment, imprint, incision, index, indexing, initialing, ink spilling, inkslinging, inscribing, inscript, insertion, introduction, inventorying, leaf, lettering, line, lining, listing, logging, macrography, makeup, marker, marking, matriculation, mausoleum, megalith, memento, memorial, memorial arch, memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone, menhir, micrography, monolith, monument, motto, mound, necrology, obelisk, obituary, page, pen, pen-and-ink, pencil driving, pillar, plaque, posting, preface, preliminaries, prize, pyramid, record keeping, recordation, recording, recto, register, registration, registry, reliquary, remembrance, reverso, ribbon, rostral column, running title, score, scoring, scratch, scratching, scrivenery, scrivening, secret writing, shaft, shrine, signature, slash, slashing, slogan, stela, stipple, stippling, stone, stupa, subtitle, table of contents, tablet, tabulation, tag line, tail, testimonial, text, tint, title, title page, tomb, tombstone, tombstone marking, tooling, tope, transcription, transliteration, trim size, trophy, type page, type-cutting, typewriting, typing, verso, watchword, writing