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One who describes crystals, or the manner of their formation; one versed in crystallography.

A demonologist. [R.] Am. Cyc.

An elegist. [Obs.]

One who investigates ethnography.

One versed in geography.

A writer of a glossary; a commentator; a scholiast. Hayward.

One of the writers of the hagiographa; a writer of lives of the saints. Shipley.

One who writes about or describes the sea.

One who writes on heresies.

One who describes organic tissues; an histologist.

An historian; a writer of history; especially, one appointed or designated to write a history; also, a title bestowed by some governments upon historians of distinction.

The office of an historiographer. Saintsbury.

A maker of clocks, watches, or dials.

One skilled in the hydrography; one who surveys, or draws maps or charts of, the sea, lakes, or other waters, with the adjacent shores; one who describes the sea or other waters. Boyle.

One who writes on the subject of hymns.

A maker of images. Fairholt.

compiler of a lexicon or dictionary. Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach; and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few. Johnson.

One who lithographs; one who practices lithography.

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

A writer of mimes. Sir T. Herbert.