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A sharp-pointed tool, used by joiners for drawing lines on stuff; a marking awl.

One who, or that which, circumscribes.

One who describes.

One who inscribes. Pownall.

One who prescribes.

One who, or that which, proscribes, denounces, or prohibits.

One who subscribes; one who contributes to an undertaking by subscribing.

One who transcribes, or writes from a copy; a copier; a copyist.

One who cheats. All the Jews, jobbers, bubblers, subscribers, projectors, etc. Pope.

Search; exploration; solicitation; systematic effort to obtain votes, subscribers, etc. No previous canvass was made for me. Burke.

One who copies; one who writes or transcribes from an original; a transcriber.

A copier; a transcriber; an imitator; a plagiarist.

of the mind; error; mistake; a blunder. This must have been the hallucination of the transcriber. Addison.

Drowsiness; dullness; sluggishness. Hallam. It might proceed from the oscitancy of transcribers. Addison.

[So named from its first describer, J. C. Rosenmüller, a German anatomist.] (Anat.) The parovarium.

arty complained that, to swell a number the nonconformists did not choose, but scrape, subscribers. Fuller.

One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer.

A transcriber; -- used in contempt. He [Aristotle] has suffered vastly from the transcribblers, as all authors of great brevity necessarily must. Gray.

e name is signed, or the persons whose names are signed, at the end of a document; the subscriber or subscribers.