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affection. My preëngagements to other themes were not unknown to those for whom I was to write. Boyle.

The writer of a preface.

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

To write or to give medical directions; to indicate remedies; as, to prescribe for a patient in a fever.

r form of a verb which expresses action or being in the present time; as, I am writing, I write, or I do write.

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.

To write in prose.

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.

To make or write protocols, or first draughts; to issue protocols. Carlyle.

To write or utter proverbs. [R.]

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.