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Of handwriting: Compressed. Obsolete.
Difficult to make out, understand, or decipher; crabbed.
containing much within a small space; compressed.
Of handwriting: small, cramped; consisting of short, feeble, or irregular strokes. Now rare.
Forcibly or unnaturally compressed and confined; constrained.