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One who writes, or is versed in, bibliography.

One who writes an account or history of the life of a particular person; a writer of lives, as Plutarch.

To write a history of the life of. Southey.

ten instrument; an interval void of consciousness, action, result, etc; a void. I can not write a paper full, I used to do; and yet I will not forgive a blank of half an inch from you. Swift. From this time there ensues a long blank in the history of French legislation. Hallam. I was ill. I can't tell how long -- it wa…

To enter, write, or register in a book or list. Let it be booked with the rest of this day's deeds. Shak.

One who writes and publishes books; especially, one who gathers his materials from other books; a compiler.

A writer in short hand; a stenographer. He asked the brachygrapher whether he wrote the notes of the sermon. Gayton.

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.

To enter or write in a calendar; to register. Waterhouse.

A song or canto [Obs.] Write loyal cantons of contemned love. Shak.

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.

One who writes a chronography; a chronologer. Tooke.