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Writing hastily or poorly. Ye newspaper witlings! ye pert scribbling folks! Goldsmith.

A chest, bookcase, or other place, where writings or curiosities are deposited; a shrine. [Obs.] But laid them up in immortial scrine. Spenser.

A small writing, certificate, or schedule; a piece of paper containing a writing. Call them generally, man by man, according to the scrip. Shak. Bills of exchange can not pay our debts abroad, till scrips of paper can be made current coin. Locke.

A writing; a written document. [Obs.] aucer.

In an abbey or monastery, the room set apart for writing or copying manuscripts; in general, a room devoted to writing. Writing rooms, or scriptoria, where the chief works of Latin literature . . . were copied and illuminated. J. R. Green.

Of or pertaining to writing; expressed in writing; used in writing; as, scriptory wills; a scriptory reed. [R.] Swift.

Anything written; a writing; a document; an inscription. I have put it in scripture and in remembrance. Chaucer. Then the Lord of Manny read the scripture on the tomb, the which was in Latin. Ld. Berners.

Writing; document; scroll. [Obs.] "Of every scrit and bond." Chaucer.

A professional writer; one whose occupation is to draw contracts or prepare writings. Shak. The writer better scrivener than clerk. Fuller.

A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll; a schedule; a list. The heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll. Isa. xxxiv. 4. Here is the scroll of every man's name. Shak.

A escritoire; a writing desk.

A piece of furniture, with conveniences for writing and for the arrangement of papers; an escritoire.

A distinct part or portion of a book or writing; a subdivision of a chapter; the division of a law or other writing; a paragraph; an article; hence, the character §, often used to denote such a division. It is hardly possible to give a distinct view of his several arguments in distinct sections. Locke.…

A writing about, or a description of, earthquakes.

The practice or methods of sensational writing or speaking; as, the sensationalism of a novel.

One who practices sensational writing or speaking.

A combination of words which is complete as expressing a thought, and in writing is marked at the close by a period, or full point. See Proposition, 4.

A publication appearing in a series or succession of part; a tale, or other writing, published in successive numbers of a periodical.

A discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermens of Chaucer. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A compendious and rapid method or writing by substituting characters, abbreviations, or symbols, for letters, words, etc.; short writing; stenography. See Illust. under Phonography.