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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.

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

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

An historian; a chronicler. [Obs.] "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.

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.

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

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.

A diphthong in the Latin language; used also by the Saxon writers. It answers to the Gr. æ was generally replaced by a, the long e or ee. In derivatives from Latin words with ae, it is mostly superseded by e. For most words found with this initial combination, the reader will therefore search under the letter E.…

An exclamation expressive of sorrow, pity, or apprehension of evil; -- in old writers, sometimes followed by day or white; alas the day, like alack a day, or alas the white.

One who allegorizes; a writer of allegory. Hume.

To treat as allegorical; to understand in an allegorical sense; as, when a passage in a writer may understood literally or figuratively, he who gives it a figurative sense is said to allegorize it.

e real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject.

or phrases. The life Homer has been written by amassing all the traditions and hints the writers could meet with. Pope.

intermediate groupings, all in regular subordination, but variously arranged by different writers.

A writer of annals. The monks . . . were the only annalists in those ages. Hume.

A writer of annotations; a commentator.