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         n 1: work made of leather

English Dictionary: loiterer by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
letter writer
n
  1. someone who communicates by means of letters [syn: correspondent, letter writer]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
letterer
n
  1. a painter of letters
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
literary
adj
  1. of or relating to or characteristic of literature; "literary criticism"
  2. knowledgeable about literature; "a literary style"
  3. appropriate to literature rather than everyday speech or writing; "when trying to impress someone she spoke in an affected literary style"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
literary agent
n
  1. an agent who represents an author in dealings with publishers
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
literary argument
n
  1. a summary of the subject or plot of a literary work or play or movie; "the editor added the argument to the poem"
    Synonym(s): argument, literary argument
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
literary composition
n
  1. imaginative or creative writing [syn: {literary composition}, literary work]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
literary critic
n
  1. a critic of literature
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
literary criticism
n
  1. a written evaluation of a work of literature [syn: criticism, literary criticism]
  2. the informed analysis and evaluation of literature
    Synonym(s): literary criticism, lit crit
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
literary genre
n
  1. a style of expressing yourself in writing [syn: {writing style}, literary genre, genre]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
literary hack
n
  1. a mediocre and disdained writer [syn: hack, {hack writer}, literary hack]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
literary pirate
n
  1. someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own
    Synonym(s): plagiarist, plagiarizer, plagiariser, literary pirate, pirate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
literary review
n
  1. a review devoted to literary criticism
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
literary study
n
  1. the humanistic study of literature
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
literary work
n
  1. imaginative or creative writing [syn: {literary composition}, literary work]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
litterer
n
  1. a person who litters public places with refuse [syn: litterer, litterbug, litter lout]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
loiterer
n
  1. someone who lingers aimlessly in or about a place [syn: loiterer, lingerer]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Latter \Lat"ter\, a. [OE. later, l[91]tter, compar. of lat late.
      See {Late}, and cf. {Later}.]
      1. Later; more recent; coming or happening after something
            else; -- opposed to {former}; as, the former and latter
            rain.
  
      2. Of two things, the one mentioned second.
  
                     The difference between reason and revelation, and in
                     what sense the latter is superior.      --I. Watts.
  
      3. Recent; modern.
  
                     Hath not navigation discovered in these latter ages,
                     whole nations at the bay of Soldania? --Locke.
  
      4. Last; latest; final. [R.] [bd]My latter gasp.[b8] --Shak.
  
      {Latter harvest}, the last part of the harvest.
  
      {Latter spring}, the last part of the spring of the year.
            --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Letter \Let"ter\, n. [OE. lettre, F. lettre, OF. letre, fr. L.
      littera, litera, a letter; pl., an epistle, a writing,
      literature, fr. linere, litum, to besmear, to spread or rub
      over; because one of the earliest modes of writing was by
      graving the characters upon tablets smeared over or covered
      with wax. --Pliny, xiii. 11. See {Liniment}, and cf.
      {Literal}.]
      1. A mark or character used as the representative of a sound,
            or of an articulation of the human organs of speech; a
            first element of written language.
  
                     And a superscription also was written over him in
                     letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew. --Luke
                                                                              xxiii. 38.
  
      2. A written or printed communication; a message expressed in
            intelligible characters on something adapted to
            conveyance, as paper, parchment, etc.; an epistle.
  
                     The style of letters ought to be free, easy, and
                     natural.                                             --Walsh.
  
      3. A writing; an inscription. [Obs.]
  
                     None could expound what this letter meant.
                                                                              --Chaucer.
  
      4. Verbal expression; literal statement or meaning; exact
            signification or requirement.
  
                     We must observe the letter of the law, without doing
                     violence to the reason of the law and the intention
                     of the lawgiver.                                 --Jer. Taylor.
  
                     I broke the letter of it to keep the sense.
                                                                              --Tennyson.
  
      5. (Print.) A single type; type, collectively; a style of
            type.
  
                     Under these buildings . . . was the king's printing
                     house, and that famous letter so much esteemed.
                                                                              --Evelyn.
  
      6. pl. Learning; erudition; as, a man of letters.
  
      7. pl. A letter; an epistle. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
  
      {Dead letter}, {Drop letter}, etc. See under {Dead}, {Drop},
            etc.
  
      {Letter book}, a book in which copies of letters are kept.
  
      {Letter box}, a box for the reception of letters to be mailed
            or delivered.
  
      {Letter carrier}, a person who carries letters; a postman;
            specif., an officer of the post office who carries letters
            to the persons to whom they are addressed, and collects
            letters to be mailed.
  
      {Letter cutter}, one who engraves letters or letter punches.
           
  
      {Letter lock}, a lock that can not be opened when fastened,
            unless certain movable lettered rings or disks forming a
            part of it are in such a position (indicated by a
            particular combination of the letters) as to permit the
            bolt to be withdrawn.
  
                     A strange lock that opens with AMEN.   --Beau. & Fl.
  
      {Letter paper}, paper for writing letters on; especially, a
            size of paper intermediate between note paper and
            foolscap. See {Paper}.
  
      {Letter punch}, a steel punch with a letter engraved on the
            end, used in making the matrices for type.
  
      {Letters of administration} (Law), the instrument by which an
            administrator or administratrix is authorized to
            administer the goods and estate of a deceased person.
  
      {Letter of attorney}, {Letter of credit}, etc. See under
            {Attorney}, {Credit}, etc.
  
      {Letter of license}, a paper by which creditors extend a
            debtor's time for paying his debts.
  
      {Letters close [or] clause} (Eng. Law.), letters or writs
            directed to particular persons for particular purposes,
            and hence closed or sealed on the outside; --
            distinguished from letters patent. --Burrill.
  
      {Letters of orders} (Eccl.), a document duly signed and
            sealed, by which a bishop makes it known that he has
            regularly ordained a certain person as priest, deacon,
            etc.
  
      {Letters patent}, {overt}, [or] {open} (Eng. Law), a writing
            executed and sealed, by which power and authority are
            granted to a person to do some act, or enjoy some right;
            as, letters patent under the seal of England.
  
      {Letter-sheet envelope}, a stamped sheet of letter paper
            issued by the government, prepared to be folded and sealed
            for transmission by mail without an envelope.
  
      {Letters testamentary} (Law), an instrument granted by the
            proper officer to an executor after probate of a will,
            authorizing him to act as executor.
  
      {Letter writer}.
            (a) One who writes letters.
            (b) A machine for copying letters.
            (c) A book giving directions and forms for the writing of
                  letters.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Letterer \Let"ter*er\ (l[ecr]t"t[etil]r*[etil]r), n.
      One who makes, inscribes, or engraves, alphabetical letters.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Letterure \Let"ter*ure\ (-[usl]r), n.
      Letters; literature. [Obs.] [bd]To teach him letterure and
      courtesy.[b8] --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lettrure \Let"trure\ (-tr[usd]r), n.
      See {Letterure}. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Literary \Lit"er*a*ry\, a. [L. litterarius, literarius,fr.
      littera, litera, a letter: cf. F. litt[82]raire. See
      {Letter}.]
      1. Of or pertaining to letters or literature; pertaining to
            learning or learned men; as, literary fame; a literary
            history; literary conversation.
  
                     He has long outlived his century, the term commonly
                     fixed as the test of literary merit.   --Johnson.
  
      2. Versed in, or acquainted with, literature; occupied with
            literature as a profession; connected with literature or
            with men of letters; as, a literary man.
  
                     In the literary as well as fashionable world.
                                                                              --Mason.
  
      {Literary property}.
            (a) Property which consists in written or printed
                  compositions.
            (b) The exclusive right of publication as recognized and
                  limited by law.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Demimonde \Dem`i*monde"\, n. [F.; demi + monde world, L.
      mundus.]
      Persons of doubtful reputation; esp., women who are kept as
      mistresses, though not public prostitutes; demireps.
  
      {Literary demimonde}, writers of the lowest kind.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Literary \Lit"er*a*ry\, a. [L. litterarius, literarius,fr.
      littera, litera, a letter: cf. F. litt[82]raire. See
      {Letter}.]
      1. Of or pertaining to letters or literature; pertaining to
            learning or learned men; as, literary fame; a literary
            history; literary conversation.
  
                     He has long outlived his century, the term commonly
                     fixed as the test of literary merit.   --Johnson.
  
      2. Versed in, or acquainted with, literature; occupied with
            literature as a profession; connected with literature or
            with men of letters; as, a literary man.
  
                     In the literary as well as fashionable world.
                                                                              --Mason.
  
      {Literary property}.
            (a) Property which consists in written or printed
                  compositions.
            (b) The exclusive right of publication as recognized and
                  limited by law.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      4. That to which a person has a legal title, whether in his
            possession or not; thing owned; an estate, whether in
            lands, goods, or money; as, a man of large property, or
            small property.
  
      5. pl. All the adjuncts of a play except the scenery and the
            dresses of the actors; stage requisites.
  
                     I will draw a bill of properties.      --Shak.
  
      6. Propriety; correctness. [Obs.] --Camden.
  
      {Literary property}. (Law) See under {Literary}.
  
      {Property man}

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Loiterer \Loi"ter*er\, n.
      1. One who loiters; an idler.
  
      2. An idle vagrant; a tramp. [Obs.] --Bp. Sanderson.
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