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Webster 1913 Edition
Writer
Writ′er
,Noun.
[AS.
wrītere
.] 1.
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.
2.
One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author;
as, a
. writer
of novelsThis pitch, as ancient
writers
do report, doth defile. Shakespeare
3.
A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the late East India Company, who, after serving a certain number of years, became a factor.
Writer of the tallies
(Eng. Law)
, an officer of the exchequer of England, who acted as clerk to the auditor of the receipt, and wrote the accounts upon the tallies from the tellers’ bills. The use of tallies in the exchequer has been abolished. Wharton (Law. Dict.)
– Writer's cramp
, Writer's palsy
or
Writer's spasm
(Med.)
, a painful spasmodic affection of the muscles of the fingers, brought on by excessive use, as in writing, violin playing, telegraphing, etc. Called also
– scrivener's palsy
. Writer to the signet
. See under
Signet
.Webster 1828 Edition
Writer
WRITER
,Noun.
1.
One who writes or has written.2.
An author.3.
A clerk or amanuensis.Writer of the tallies, an officer of the exchequer of England; a clerk to the auditor of the receipt, who writes upon the tallies the whole of the tellers bills.