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One who practice the art or business of writing or engrossing.

The art of writing or engrossing; handwriting; as, skilled in chirography.

the cross usually set before it, or from a superstitious custom, sometimes practiced, of writing it in the form of a cross, by way of a charm. From infant conning of the Christcross-row. Wordsworth.

The art of writing in letters of gold.

A private alphabet, system of characters, or other mode of writing, contrived for the safe transmission of secrets; also, a writing in such characters. His father . . . engaged him when he was very young to write all his letters to England in cipher. Bp. Burnet. Cipher key, a key to assist in reading writings in cipher…

Of or relating to a clerk or copyist, or to writing. "Clerical work." E. Everett. A clerical error, an error made in copying or writing.

color when hydrous, blue when dehydrated. Its solution is used for a sympathetic ink, the writing being nearly colorless when dried in the air, owing to absorbed moisture, and becoming bright blue when warmed.

A colloquial expression, not employed in formal discourse or writing.

To make colloquial and familiar; as, to colloquialize one's style of writing.

Conciseness in writing. Bp. Horsley.

A note or observation intended to explain, illustrate, or criticise the meaning of a writing, book, etc.; explanation; annotation; exposition. All the volumes of philosophy, With all their comments. Prior.

d business. -- Commercial law. See under Law. -- Commercial note paper, a small size of writing paper, usually about 5 by 7½ or 8 inches. -- Commercial paper, negotiable paper given in due course of business. It includes bills of exchange, promissory notes, bank cheks, etc. -- Commercial traveler, an agent of a who…

rs in a firm whose names are not mentioned in its style or title; -- often abbreviated in writing; as, Hottinguer & Co.

parison of hands (Law), a mode of proving or disproving the genuineness of a signature or writing by comparing it with another proved or admitted to be genuine, in order to ascertain whether both were written by the same person. Bouvier. Burrill.

The act of writing for practice in a language, as English, Latin, German, etc.

Expressing much in a few words; condensed; brief and compacted; -- used of style in writing or speaking. The concise style, which expresseth not enough, but leaves somewhat to be understood. B. Jonson. Where the author is . . . too brief and concise, amplify a little. I. Watts.

One who guesses or conjectures. [Obs.] A great conjector at other men by their writings. Milton.

just deduction of consequence; with right connection of ideas; logically. The faculty of writing consequentially. Addison.

war, Consigned the youthful consort to his care. Pope. The four evangelists consigned to writing that history. Addison.

The writing by which anything is consigned.