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One who uses the pen; a writer; esp., one skilled in the use of the pen; a calligrapher; a writing master.

d by a government to retired public officers, disabled soldiers, the families of soldiers killed in service, or to meritorious authors, or the like. To all that kept the city pensions and wages. 1 Esd. iv. 56.

complete, so that nothing requisite is wanting; entire development; consummate culture, skill, or moral excellence; the highest attainable state or degree of excellence; maturity; as, perfection in an art, in a science, or in a system; perfection in form or degree; fruits in perfection.

lishes, or fulfills; as, a good promiser, but a bad performer; especially, one who shows skill and training in any art; as, a performer of the drama; a performer on the harp.

Skilled. [Obs.]

Having the quality of injuring or killing; destructive; very mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked. Let this pernicious hour Stand aye accursed in the calendar. Shak. Pernicious to his health. Prescott.

ow, an arrow, a sword, a flag, etc. -- Petit treason, formerly, in England, the crime of killing a person to whom the offender owed duty or subjection, as one's husband, master, mistress, etc. The crime is now not distinguished from murder.

to have obtained permission to drive the chariot of the sun, in doing which his want of skill would have set the world on fire, had he not been struck with a thunderbolt by Jupiter, and hurled headlong into the river Po.

One skilled in pharmacy; a druggist. See the Note under Apothecary.

One skilled in pharmacy; a pharmaceutist; a druggist.

One skilled in pharmacology.

One versed or skilled in phonography.

One who practices, or is skilled in, photography.

A person skilled in physic, or the art of healing; one duty authorized to prescribe remedies for, and treat, diseases; a doctor of medicine.

One skilled in physiognomy. Dryden.

One skilled in phytology; a writer on plants; a botanist. Evelyn.

One skilled in diseases of plants.

A performer, esp. a skilled performer, on the piano.

ceives the first attack of the bull, and excites him by picking him without attempting to kill him.

The pilot's skill or knowledge, as of coasts, rocks, bars, and channels. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.