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The arrangement and proportioning of windows; -- used by modern writers for the decorating of an architectural composition by means of the window (and door) openings, their ornaments, and proportions.

A writer on feuds; a person versed in feudal law. Spelman.

A writer of feuilletons. F. Harrison.

A writer of fiction. [R.] Lamb.

To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.

One who writes a flora, or an account of plants.

To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.

born for kings, as beasts for men, Not for protection, but to be devoured Dryden. For he writes not for money, nor for praise. Denham.

, sovereignty, or locality; as, a foreign language; foreign fruits. "Domestic and foreign writers." Atterbury. Hail, foreign wonder! Whom certain these rough shades did never breed. Milton.

ls. fort"a The construction of a fable seems by no means the forte of our modern poetical writers. Jeffrey.

A writer of fragments; as, the fragmentist of Wolfenbüttel. [R.]

veral patterns or diapers used as tinctures. There are nine in all, or, according to some writers, only six. See Tincture.

A writer of fustian. [R.] Milton.

el wedge used in mining, etc. I will go get a leaf of brass, And with a gad of steel will write these words. Shak.

One who describes the phenomena of galvanism; a writer on galvanism.

A writer of news, or an officer appointed to publish news by authority. Johnson.

To reason or write after the manner of the Germans.

A term variously employed by early writers on art, though commonly designating the yellow oxide of lead, or massicot. Fairholt.

A name given by old writers to the clove pink (Dianthus Caryophyllus) but now to the common stock (Matthiola incana), a cruciferous plant with showy and fragrant blossoms, usually purplish, but often pink or white.

A writer of glosses or of a glossary; a commentator; a scholiast. Tyrwhitt.