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3d pers. sing. pres. of Write, for writeth. Chaucer.

Ability or capacity to write. [R.] Walpole.

Capable of, or suitable for, being written down.

Inclined to much writing; -- correlative to talkative. [R.] Pope.

m the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material by a suitable instrument; as, to write the characters called letters; to write figures.

One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk. They [came] that handle the pen of the writer. Judg. v. 14. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Ps. xlv. 1.

The office of a writer.

To twist; to turn; now, usually, to twist or turn so as to distort; to wring. "With writhing [turning] of a pin." Chaucer. Then Satan first knew pain, And writhed him to and fro. Milton. Her mouth she writhed, her forehead taught to frown. Dryden. His battle-writhen arms, and mighty hands. Tennyson.…

Having a twisted distorted from. A writhen staff his step unstable guides. Fairfax.

To wrinkle. [Obs.] Shak.

Anything written or printed; anything expressed in characters or letters; as:

p. p. of Write, v.

The cast or form of writing peculiar to each hand or person; chirography.

To write incorrectly.

One who gathered news for, and wrote, news-letters. Macaulay.

To exceed or excel in writing.

A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.

To write again. Young.

One who writes short stories, as for magazines.

To write with a typewriter. [Recent]