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A maker of, or writer for, a cyclopedia.

A writer of dactylic verse.

that upon which an inference or an argument is based; -- used chiefly in the plural. Any writer, therefore, who . . . furnishes us with data sufficient to determine the time in which he wrote. Priestley.

A writer of a book divided into decades; as, Livy was a decadist. [R.]

Profoundly book-learned. "Great writers and deep-read men." L'Estrange.

Pertaining to, savoring of, or consisting in, deism; as, a deistic writer; a deistical book. The deistical or antichristian scheme. I. Watts.

Florence. The Dellacruscan School, a name given in satire to a class of affected English writers, most of whom lived in Florence, about a. d. 1785.

who are kept as mistresses, though not public prostitutes; demireps. Literary demimonde, writers of the lowest kind.

A table, frame, or case, usually with sloping top, but often with flat top, for the use writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.

Work done at a desk, as by a clerk or writer. Tennyson.

ssia (Myogale moschata). It is allied to the moles, but is called muscrat by some English writers. [Written also dæsman.]

One who detracts; a detractor. Other detracters and malicious writers. Sir T. North.

The writer of Deuteronomy.

in, the regular and usual course of the specific voyage insured, thus releasing the underwriters from their responsibility. Deviation of a falling body (Physics), that deviation from a strictly vertical line of descent which occurs in a body falling freely, in consequence of the rotation of the earth. -- Deviation of…

at difficulties, which diacritical marks necessarily throw in the way of both printer and writer. A. J. Ellis.

A writer of dialogues. P. Skelton.

eir meanings; a lexicon; a vocabulary; a wordbook. I applied myself to the perusal of our writers; and noting whatever might be of use to ascertain or illustrate any word or phrase, accumulated in time the materials of a dictionary. Johnson.

., of style, opposed to concise or terse; verbose; prolix; as, a diffuse style; a diffuse writer. A diffuse and various knowledge of divine and human things. Milton.

Originated or taught by Diophantus, the Greek writer on algebra. Diophantine analysis (Alg.), that branch of indeterminate analysis which has for its object the discovery of rational values that satisfy given equations containing squares or cubes; as, for example, to find values of x and y which make x2 + y2 an exact s…

The writer of a treatise or dissertation. Philologers and critical discoursers. Sir T. Browne.