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One who writers marginal notes; one who illustrates the text of a book by notes in the margin. Sir T. Browne.

A paragraph added to a letter after it is concluded and signed by the writer; an addition made to a book or composition after the main body of the work has been finished, containing something omitted, or something new occurring to the writer. [Abbrev. P. S.]

The writer of a preface.

A sum of money paid to underwriters for insurance, or for undertaking to indemnify for losses of any kind.

rimary colors. See under Color. -- Primitive Fathers (Eccl.), the acknowledged Christian writers who flourished before the Council of Nice, A. D. 325. Shipley. -- Primitive groove (Anat.), a depression or groove in the epiblast of the primitive streak. It is not connected with the medullary groove, which appears late…

periphery, used in machines for paging or numbering, or in ticket-printing machines, typewriters, etc.; a type wheel.

Indulging in protracted discourse; tedious; wearisome; -- applied to a speaker or writer.

isdom. Burke. Proportionable, which is no longer much favored, was of our [i. e., English writers'] own coining. Fitzed. Hall.

A writer of prose; an unpoetical writer. "An estimable prosaist." I. Taylor.

A writer of prose. [R.]

A writer of prose. [Obs.]

of those Christians who reject the authority of the Roman Catholic Church; as, Protestant writers.

A writer or composer of sacred songs; -- a title particularly applied to David and the other authors of the Scriptural psalms.

A writer of psalms; a psalmographer.

A writer of psalms, or sacred songs and hymns.

A writer on the laws of nature and nations; one who is versed in the science of public right, the principles of government, etc. The Whig leaders, however, were much more desirous to get rid of Episcopacy than to prove themselves consummate publicists and logicians. Macaulay.

A trifling nicety; a cavil; a quibble. We laugh at the quiddities of those writers now. Coleridge.

Capable or worthy of being quoted; as, a quotable writer; a quotable sentence. -- Quot`a*bit"i*ty, n. Poe.

eminence, or excellence; position in civil or social life; station; degree; grade; as, a writer of the first rank; a lawyer of high rank. These all are virtues of a meaner rank. Addison.

f any kind; dexterous; prompt; easy; expert; as, a ready apprehension; ready wit; a ready writer or workman. "Ready in devising expedients." Macaulay. Gurth, whose temper was ready, through surly. Sir W. Scott.