1.  braille(n = noun.person) louis braille - French educator who lost his sight at the age of three and who invented a system of writing and printing for sightless people (1809-1852);
is a kind of educator, pedagog, pedagogue
Derived form verb braille₁

2.  braille(n = noun.communication) - a point system of writing in which patterns of raised dots represent letters and numerals;
is a kind of point system
Derived form verb braille₁

   braille(v = verb.communication) - transcribe in braille;
is one way to transcribe, transliterate
Derived forms noun braille₂, noun braille₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

   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.]

   to transcribe in Braille. [WordNet 1.5]

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

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.

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