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Meaning of LIPOGRAM

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Lip"o*gram\ (l[i^]p"[-o]*gr[a^]m; 277), n. [Gr.
lei`pein, lipei^n, to leave, omit + -gram.]
A writing composed of words not having a certain letter or
letters; -- as in the Odyssey of Tryphiodorus there was no A
in the first book, no B in the second, and so on.
 
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