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A line, ridge, furrow, or band of fibers, especially in the median line; as, the raphe of the tongue.

One versed in aëography: an aërologist.

One who writers his own life or biography.

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.

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

One who practices calcography.

One who makes calendars. [R.]

One skilled in calligraphy; a good penman.

One who make charts or maps.

An engraver on copper or brass; hence, an engraver of copper plates for printing upon paper.

Same as Cartographer, Cartographic, Cartography, etc.

See chirographist, 2. Chirographer of fines (Old Eng. Law), an officer in the court of common pleas, who engrossed fines.

One who describes or makes a map of a district or region. "The chorographers of Italy." Sir T. Browne.

One who is engaged in chromolithography.

One who writes a chronography; a chronologer. Tooke.

One who exhibits moving pictures or who takes chronophotographs by the cinematograph. -- Cin`e*mat`o*graph"ic (#), a. -- Cin`e*mat`o*graph"ic*al*ly (#), adv.

One who describes or writes about comets.

s and the earth. The name of this island is nowhere found among the old and ancient cosmographers. Robynson (More's Utopia).

One who writes in cipher, or secret characters.