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English Dictionary: writers' by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Writer \Writ"er\, n. [AS. wr[c6]tere.]
      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 novels.
  
                     This pitch, as ancient writers do report, doth
                     defile.                                             --Shak.
  
      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, palsy, [or] 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}.
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