[W/K] :: Scribe

  Scribe \Scribe\, v. i.
     To make a mark.
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           With the separated points of a pair of spring dividers
           scribe around the edge of the templet.   --A. M. Mayer.
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  Scribe \Scribe\ (skr[imac]b), n. [L. scriba, fr. scribere to
     write; cf. Gr. ska`rifos a splinter, pencil, style (for
     writing), E. scarify. Cf. Ascribe, Describe, Script,
     Scrivener, Scrutoire.]
     1. One who writes; a draughtsman; a writer for another;
        especially, an offical or public writer; an amanuensis or
        secretary; a notary; a copyist.
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     2. (Jewish Hist.) A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled
        in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the
        law to the people.
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  Scribe \Scribe\ (skr[imac]b), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scribed
     (skr[imac]bd); p. pr. & vb. n. Scribing.]
     1. To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe. --Spenser.
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     2. (Carp.) To cut (anything) in such a way as to fit closely
        to a somewhat irregular surface, as a baseboard to a floor
        which is out of level, a board to the curves of a molding,
        or the like; -- so called because the workman marks, or
        scribes, with the compasses the line that he afterwards
        cuts.
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     3. To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.
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     Scribing iron, an iron-pointed instrument for scribing, or
        marking, casks and logs.
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  Scribe
       n 1: French playwright (1791-1861) [syn: Augustin Eugene Scribe]
       2: informal terms for journalists [syn: scribbler, penman]
       3: someone employed to make written copies of documents and
          manuscripts [syn: copyist, scrivener]
       4: a sharp-pointed awl for marking wood or metal to be cut
          [syn: scriber, scratch awl]
       v : score a line on with a pointed instrument, as in
           metalworking

  155 Moby Thesaurus words for "scribe":
     Levite, accountant, advertising writer, amanuensis, annalist,
     archivist, art critic, author, authoress, baal kore, belletrist,
     bibliographer, bookkeeper, calligrapher, cantor, carve, chase,
     chief rabbi, chirographer, clerk, coauthor, collaborator,
     columnist, commentator, compiler, composer, copier, copy, copy out,
     copyist, copywriter, creative writer, critic, dance critic,
     diarist, documentalist, draft, drama critic, dramatist, dramaturge,
     draw up, edit, editor, enchase, encyclopedist, enface, engrave,
     engraver, engross, essayist, etch, filing clerk, free lance,
     free-lance writer, ghost, ghostwriter, gossip columnist, grave,
     hack, high priest, humorist, incise, indite, inditer, ink spiller,
     inkslinger, inscribe, journalist, kohen, letterer, librarian,
     literary artist, literary craftsman, literary critic, literary man,
     litterateur, logographer, magazine writer, make a recension,
     make out, man of letters, mark, marker, monographer, music critic,
     newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, notary, notary public,
     novelettist, novelist, pamphleteer, paragraphist, pen, pencil,
     pencil driver, penman, penner, penny-a-liner, penwoman, playwright,
     poet, priest, prose writer, prothonotary, push the pen,
     put in writing, rabbi, rabbin, recense, record, record clerk,
     recorder, recording secretary, recordist, register, registrar,
     reporter, reviewer, revise, rewrite, scenario writer, scenarist,
     score, scorekeeper, scorer, scratch, scribbler, scriptwriter,
     scrive, scrivener, scroll, secretary, short-story writer,
     sob sister, spill ink, spoil paper, stenographer, stonecutter,
     storyteller, superscribe, technical writer, timekeeper, trace,
     transcribe, transcriber, type, word painter, word-slinger,
     wordsmith, write, write down, write out, writer
  
  

  Scribe
       
          A text-formatting language by Brian Reid.
       
          (1994-12-01)