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hat depends the satisfaction or disgust wherewith it is received. Locke. In a vulgar hack writer such oddities would have excited only disgust. Macaulay.

A writer of dissertations.

One who writers a dissertation; one who discourses. Boyle.

Disagreement; difference. Related with some divergence by other writers. Sir G. C. Lewis.

The author of a dramatic composition; a writer of plays.

Scarcity; lack. A drought of Christian writers caused a dearth of all history. Fuller.

forces in producing or changing their motion (kinetics). Dynamics is held by some recent writers to include statics and not kinematics.

One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom. By many writers it was formerly included in the Radiata. [Written also Echinoderma.]

The younger or prose Edda, called also the Edda of Snorri, is the work of several writers, though usually ascribed to Snorri Sturleson, who was born in 1178.

e is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth. 1 Kings xviii. 27. Few writers hesitate to use either in what is called a triple alternative; such as, We must either stay where we are, proceed, or recede. Latham.

th or her times, esp. to the architecture or literature of her reign; as, the Elizabethan writers, drama, literature. -- n.

The writer, or one of the writers, of the passages of the Old Testament, notably those of Elohim instead of Jehovah, as the name of the Supreme Being; -- distinguished from Jehovist. S. Davidson.

A writer or inventor of emblems. Sir T. Browne.

cibly; in a striking manner or degree; preëminently. He was indeed emphatically a popular writer. Macaulay.

so, one whose knowledge embraces the whole range of the sciences. The Encyclopedists, the writers of the great French encyclopedia which appeared in 1751-1772. The editors were Diderot and D'Alembert. Among the contributors were Voltaire and Rousseau.

A subordinary, resembling the pale, but of one fourth its width (according to some writers, one eighth).

The albumen of a seed; -- limited by recent writers to that formed within the embryo sac.

A writer of epistles, or of an epistle of the New Testament. M. Arnold.

A writer of epistles.

A writer of epitaphs. Nash.