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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.

To talk or write as an egotist. Cowper.

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.

A write of elegies. T. Warton.

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.

To write or print on the face of (a draft, bill, etc.); as, to enface drafts with memoranda.

To copy or write in a large hand (en gross, i. e., in large); to write a fair copy of in distinct and legible characters; as, to engross a deed or like instrument on parchment. Some period long past, when clerks engrossed their stiff and formal chirography on more substantial materials. Hawthorne. Laws that may be engr…

To speak or write at length; to be diffuse in speaking or writing; to expatiate; to dilate. To enlarge upon this theme. M. Arnold.

ironed. Spenser. Environed he was with many foes. Shak. Environ me with darkness whilst I write. Donne.

One who writes in an affectedly pointed style. Epigrammatizers of our English prose style. Coleridge.

To write; to communicate in a letter or by writing. [Obs.] Milton.

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

One who writes epistles; a correspondent. Mary Cowden Clarke.