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One skilled in the laws; a writer on law. Milman. J. Morley.

er to an executor after probate of a will, authorizing him to act as executor. -- Letter writer. (a) One who writes letters. (b) A machine for copying letters. (c) A book giving directions and forms for the writing of letters.

A writer of a lexicon. [R.]

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.

said of inanimate objects, ideas, etc. Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water. Shak.

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.

A chronicler; one who writes history in a condensed manner with short simple sentences.

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.

One who edits or writes for a magazine. [R.] Goldsmith.

One who edits or writes for a magazine. [R.]

To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify. [Archaic] Chaucer. Tennyson. To solace him some time, as I do when I make. P. Plowman. To make as if, or To make as though, to pretend that; to make show that; to make believe (see under Make, v. t.). Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled…

One who writes verses; a poet. [Obs.]

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

A character (usually a cross) made as a substitute for a signature by one who can not write. The mark of the artisan is found upon the most ancient fabrics that have come to light. Knight.

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