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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 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]

An instrument for writing by means of type, a typewheel, or the like, in which the operator makes use of a sort of keyboard, in order to obtain printed impressions of the characters upon paper.

To write under something else; to subscribe. What addition and change I have made I have here underwritten. Bp. Sanderson.

One who underwrites his name to the conditions of an insurance policy, especially of a marine policy; an insurer.

To cancel, as what is written; to erase. Milton.

To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against.

The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.

The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended. Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations. Paley.

A fabulous people reported by ancient writers to have heads.

To write in the margin. [R.] Coleridge.

nse of a verb, participle, adjective, or other adverb, and usually placed near it; as, he writes well; paper extremely white.