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A writer or drawer up of papal bulls. [R.] Harmar.

em. See Bureaucracy. -- Bureau Veritas, an institution, in the interest of maritime underwriters, for the survey and rating of vessels all over the world. It was founded in Belgium in 1828, removed to Paris in 1830, and reëstablished in Brussels in 1870.

pture of Constantinople by the Turks, A.D. 1453. -- Byzantine historians, historians and writers (Zonaras, Procopius, etc.) who lived in the Byzantine empire. P. Cyc. Byzantine style (Arch.), a style of architecture developed in the Byzantine empire.

A cancer. By some medical writers, the term is applied to an indolent tumor. See Cancer. Dunglison.

A mark [^] used by writers and proof readers to indicate that something is interlined above, or inserted in the margin, which belongs in the place marked by the caret.

ch of a cannon, usually a knob or breeching loop connected with the gun by a neck. In old writers it included all in rear of the base ring.

ent; as, we are both in the same category. There is in modern literature a whole class of writers standing within the same category. De Quincey.

A chirographer; a writer or engrosser.

A writer of a chronicle; a recorder of events in the order of time; an historian. Such an honest chronicler as Griffith. Shak.

A writer of chronograms.

tic Ocean; -- used of the eastern or the western side, according to the standpoint of the writer. Story.

One skilled in the civil law. Ancient civilians and writers upon government. Swift.

A writer of comedy. Milton.

so the Roman or the Italic order, and is one of the five orders recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. See Capital.

w what to say; he knew also, when to leave off, -- a continence which is practiced by few writers. Dryden.

One who controverts; a controversial writer; a controversialist. Some controverters in divinity are like swaggerers in a tavern. B. Jonson.

sembling the African panther in size and habits. Its color is tawny, without spots; hence writers often called it the American lion. Called also puma, panther, mountain lion, and catamount. See Puma.

The Latin version technically called a crib. Ld. Lytton. Occasional perusal of the Pagan writers, assisted by a crib. Wilkie Collins.

a critical manner; with nice discernment; accurately; exactly. Critically to discern good writers from bad. Dryden.

ile and devours its insect parasites, even entering its open mouth (according to reliable writers) in pursuit of files, etc.; -- called also Nile bird. It is the trochilos of ancient writers. -- Crocodile tears, false or affected tears; hypocritical sorrow; -- derived from the fiction of old travelers, that crocodiles…