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Using, or interlarded with, pretentious words; bombastic; as, a lexiphanic writer or speaker; lexiphanic writing.

That deviation from strict fact, form, or rule, in which an artist or writer indulges, assuming that it will be permitted for the sake of the advantage or effect gained; as, poetic license; grammatical license, etc.

which corresponds to a line of separate types. By pressing upon keys like those of a typewriter the matrices for one line are properly arranged; the stereotype, or slug, is then cast and planed, and the matrices are returned to their proper places, the whole process being automatic.

An association of underwriters and others in London, for the collection and diffusion of marine intelligence, the insurance, classification, registration, and certifying of vessels, and the transaction of business of various kinds connected with shipping.

h embraces the details of moving and supplying armies. The meaning of the word is by some writers extended to include strategy. H. L. Scott.

onsider; to view; to conceive of; to think of. I looked on Virgil as a succinct, majestic writer. Dryden.

d or sublime; not exalted or diction; as, a low comparison. In comparison of these divine writers, the noblest wits of the heathen world are low and dull. Felton.

A bone of the human body which was supposed by certain Rabbinical writers to be indestructible. Its location was a matter of dispute. Brande & C.

infolded with thin sheets of plain paper upon which the marks made by a stylus or a type-writer are transferred.

A writer of martyrology; an historian of martyrs. T. Warton.

One of the writers of the Masora.

hich is the mean of the squares of all the errors; -- called also, especially by European writers, mean error. -- Mean line. (Crystallog.) Same as Bisectrix. -- Mean noon, noon as determined by mean time. -- Mean proportional (between two numbers) (Math.), the square root of their product. -- Mean sun, a fictitious…

transactions or events (usually written in familiar style) as they are remembered by the writer. See History, 2.

A writer of memoirs.

A writer of mimes. Sir T. Herbert.

A writer of miscellanies.

A writer of miscellanies; miscellanarian.

A writer of a monody.

A writer of a monograph.

One who moralizes; one who teaches or animadverts upon the duties of life; a writer of essays intended to correct vice and inculcate moral duties. Addison.