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One skilled in calligraphy; a good penman.

A banker; a money changer or broker; one who deals in bills of exchange, or who is skilled in the science of exchange.

One skilled in campanology; a bell ringer.

A professor of canon law; one skilled in the knowledge and practice of ecclesiastical law. South.

One skilled in drawing cartoons.

One who is skilled in, or given to, casuistry. The judment of any casuist or learned divine concerning the state of a man's soul, is not sufficient to give him confidence. South.

A maker of catalogues; esp. one skilled in the making of catalogues.

The art of writing or engrossing; handwriting; as, skilled in chirography.

A person who investigates dates of events and transactions; one skilled in chronology. That learned noise and dust of the chronologist is wholly to be avoided. Locke. THe most exact chronologers tell us that Christ was born in October, and not in December. John Knox.

One skilled in the civil law. Ancient civilians and writers upon government. Swift.

One skilled in compliments. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

ander; to direct; to manage; to carry on; as, to conduct the affairs of a kingdom. Little skilled in the art of conducting a siege. Prescott.

One skilled in counterpoint. L. Mason.

One skilled in or given to controversy; a controversialist. How unfriendly is the controvertist to the discernment of the critic! Campbell.

One who describes the universe; one skilled in cosmology.

One skilled in some trade or manual occupation; an artificer; a mechanic.

One skilled in his craft or trade; one of superior cunning. In cunning persuasion his craftsmaster. Holland.

Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful. A noble crafty man of trees. Wyclif.

One skilled in, or who practices, cranioscopy. It was found of equal dimension in a literary man whose skull puzzied the cranioscopists. Coleridge.

One skilled in judging of the merits of literary or artistic works; a connoisseur; an adept; hence, one who examines literary or artistic works, etc., and passes judgment upon them; a reviewer. The opininon of the most skillful critics was, that nothing finer [than Goldsmith's "Traveler"] had appeared in verse since th…