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One who sends telegraphic messages; a telegraphic operator; a telegraphist.

Furfuran. [Obs.]

cribes a particular place, town, city, or tract of land. Dante is the one authorized topographer of the mediæval hell. Milman.

A printer. T. Warton.

One who practices xylography.

Am engraver on zinc.

One who describes animals, their forms and habits.

One who writes his own life; an autobiographer. [R.]

Bibliographer.

Relating to, or characteristic of, Boswell, the biographer of Dr. Johnson.

A calligrapher

A chirographer; a writer or engrosser.

Same as Cryptographer.

or spoken; to give an account of; to make known to others by words or signs; as, the geographer describes countries and cities.

A lexicographer. [R.]

ertain organic substances, as pine wood, salts of pyromucic acid, etc.; -- called also tetraphenol.

One who treats of the sacred writings; a writer of the lives of the saints; a hagiographer. Tylor. Hagiologists have related it without scruple. Southey.

Having the raphe terminating about half way between the chalaza and the orifice; amphitropous; -- said of an ovule. Gray.

The art of employment of an historiographer.

udgment; undiscerning; indiscreet; unwise; as, an injudicious adviser. An injudicious biographer who undertook to be his editor and the protector of his memory. A. Murphy.