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A large hand in writing; -- so called because it was the practice to write the text of a book in a large hand and the notes in a smaller hand.

A subject or topic on which a person writes or speaks; a proposition for discussion or argument; a text. My theme is alway one and ever was. Chaucer. And when a soldier was the theme, my name Was not far off. Shak.

A writer on theogony.

crustacean, arachnid, or other articulate animal. In the case of decapod Crustacea, some writers include under the term thorax only the three segments bearing the maxillipeds; others include also the five segments bearing the legs. See Illust. in Appendix.

A division of insects, considered by some writers a distinct order, but regarded by others as belonging to the Hemiptera. They are all of small size, and have narrow, broadly fringed wings with rudimentary nervures. Most of the species feed upon the juices of plants, and some, as those which attack grain, are very inju…

To excel; to rise above others. But write thy, and top. Dryden.

To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion; to write; to fling. To toss and fling, and to be restless, only frets and enreges our pain. Tillotson.

One versed in toxicology; the writer of a treatise on poisons.

One of the writers of the Oxford tracts, called "Tracts for the Times," issued during the period 1833-1841, in which series of papers the sacramental system and authority of the Church, and the value of tradition, were brought into prominence. Also, a member of the High Church party, holding generally the principles of…

One who writes tracts; specif., a Tractarian. [R.] C. Kingsley.

A writer of tragedy. Thence what the lofty, grave, tragedians taught. Milton.

A writer of tragedy. [Obs.]

To write over again, or in the same words; to copy; as, to transcribe Livy or Tacitus; to transcribe a letter.

One who transcribes, or writes from a copy; a copier; a copyist.

One who writes a treatise. [Obs.]

m, intermediate, in some respects, between the invertebrates and vertebrates, and by some writers united with the latter. They were formerly classed with acephalous mollusks. The body is usually covered with a firm external tunic, consisting in part of cellulose, and having two openings, one for the entrance and one fo…

esignating one of the five orders of architecture recognized and described by the Italian writers of the 16th century, or characteristic of the order. The original of this order was not used by the Greeks, but by the Romans under the Empire. See Order, and Illust. of Capital.

The act or art of using a typewriter; also, a print made with a typewriter.

A person who operates a typewriting machine; a typewriter.

To write one's name at the foot or end of, as a letter or any legal instrument. The undersigned, the person whose name is signed, or the persons whose names are signed, at the end of a document; the subscriber or subscribers.