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tail feathers are racket-shaped at the tip, when mature. The bird itself is said by some writers to trim them into this shape. They feed on insects, reptiles, and fruit, and are found from Mexico to Brazil. The name is derived from its note. [Written also momot.]

Not known or mentioned by name; anonymous; as, a nameless writer."Nameless pens." Atterbury.

mind; characterized by strength in sentiment or style; forcible; spirited; as, a nervous writer.

text or author; a comment; a critical, explanatory, or illustrative observation. The best writers have been perplexed with notes, and obscured with illustrations. Felton.

A writer of news. [Obs.] Tatler (178).

A writer of an ode or odes.

ertaining to onomatopoeia; characterized by onomatopoeia; imitative; as, an onomatopoetic writer or word. Earle.

cal or scientific investigation may be conducted; -- a term adopted from the Aristotelian writers by Lord Bacon, as the title ("Novum Organon") of part of his treatise on philosophical method. Sir. W. Hamilton.

An original thinker or writer; an originator. [R.] Men who are bad at copying, yet are good originals. C. G. Leland.

A writer of palindromes.

s to New Guinea. More than eight hundred uses to which it is put are enumerated by native writers. Its wood is largely used for building purposes; its fruit and roots serve for food, its sap for making toddy, and its leaves for thatching huts.

ed from Sir Charles Bell, an English surgeon who described it. -- Scrivener's palsy. See Writer's cramp, under Writer. -- Shaking palsy, paralysis agitans, a disease usually occurring in old people, characterized by muscular tremors and a peculiar shaking and tottering gait.

A writer of pamphlets; a scribbler. Dryden. Macaulay.

One versed in pantology; a writer of pantology.

Conformed to popery. [Obs.] "Papized writers." Fuller.

A writer of memoirs of religious persona, as examples of Christian excellence.

A writer of paragraphs; a paragraphist.

A collector or writer of proverbs. [R.]

sistance of the muscles which ordinarily move the part. -- Passive obedience (as used by writers on government), obedience or submission of the subject or citizen as a duty in all cases to the existing government. -- Passive prayer, among mystic divines, a suspension of the activity of the soul or intellectual facult…

ant; characteristic of, or resembling, a pedant; ostentatious of learning; as, a pedantic writer; a pedantic description; a pedantical affectation. "Figures pedantical." Shak.