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Fig.: A writer, or his style; as, he has a sharp pen. "Those learned pens." Fuller.

ty or peculiar manner; also, in general, the act or occupation of the artist, descriptive writer, etc.

One who uses the pen; a writer; esp., one skilled in the use of the pen; a calligrapher; a writing master.

One who pens; a writer. Sir T. North.

One who furnishes matter to public journals at so much a line; a poor writer for hire; a hack writer. Thackeray.

A female writer; an authoress. Johnson.

nderstood; clear in thought or in expression; not obscure or ambiguous; as, a perspicuous writer; perspicuous statements. "The purpose is perspicuous." Shak. -- Per*spic"u*ous*ly, adv. -- Per*spic"u*ous*ness, n.

One skilled in phytology; a writer on plants; a botanist. Evelyn.

ers, toucans, trogons, hornbills, kingfishers, motmots, rollers, and goatsuckers. By some writers it is made to include also the cuckoos, swifts, and humming birds.

Hence, an analogous part of a typewriter, on which the paper rests to receive an impression.

; frolicsome; indulging a sportive fancy; humorous; merry; as, a playful child; a playful writer. -- Play"ful*ly, adv. -- Play"ful*ness, n.

By some recent writers applied to the Merostomata.

rticular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven. Shak. A poet is a maker, as the word signifies. Dryden. Poet laureate. See under Laureate.

An inferior rhymer, or writer of verses; a dabbler in poetic art. The talk of forgotten poetasters. Macaulay.

Engaged in, or addicted to, polemics, or to controversy; disputations; as, a polemic writer. South.

c policy, or to politics; relating to affairs of state or administration; as, a political writer. "The political state of Europe." Paley.

A political writer. [R.]

An instrument for multiplying copies of a writing; a manifold writer; a copying machine.

Papal; pontifical. [Obs.] "Pontificial writers." Burton.

By analogy with the French portail, used by recent writers for the whole architectural composition which surrounds and includes the doorways and porches of a church.