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Skillful in, or fond of, writing. [Obs.] Barrow.

A painter's pencil.

To card coarsely; to run through the scribling machine.

A scribble. [R.] oster.

One who scribles; a literary hack. The scribbler, pinched with hunger, writes to dine. Granville.

The act or process of carding coarsely. Scribbing machine, the machine used for the first carding of wool or other fiber; -- called also scribbler.

In a scribbling manner.

To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe. Spenser.

A sharp-pointed tool, used by joiners for drawing lines on stuff; a marking awl.

The character and opinions of a Jewish scribe in the time of Christ. F. W. Robertson.

Capable of being subscribed. [R.]

To write underneath, as one's name; to sign (one's name) to a document. [They] subscribed their names under them. Sir T. More.

One who subscribes; one who contributes to an undertaking by subscribing.

o write a name, address, or the like, on the outside or cover of (anything); as, to superscribe a letter.

A transcriber; -- used in contempt. He [Aristotle] has suffered vastly from the transcribblers, as all authors of great brevity necessarily must. Gray.

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 of the belts or zones into which Sir E. Forbes divides the bottom of the sea in describing its plants, animals, etc. It is the one furthest from the shore, embracing all beyond one hundred fathoms deep. Hence, abyssal animals, plants, etc.

The articles of dress prescribed and worn at some colleges and universities.

to be added; an appendix or addition. Addendum circle (Mech.), the circle which may be described around a circular spur wheel or gear wheel, touching the crests or tips of the teeth. Rankine.