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n. [ Auto- + biographer. ] One who writes his own life or biography. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; book + &unr_; to write : cf. F. bibliographe. ] One who writes, or is versed in, bibliography. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who writes an account or history of the life of a particular person; a writer of lives, as Plutarch. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A writer in short hand; a stenographer. [ 1913 Webster ]

He asked the brachygrapher whether he wrote the notes of the sermon. Gayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who practices calcography. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Calendar + -graph + er. ] One who makes calendars. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One skilled in calligraphy; a good penman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who makes charts or maps. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. An engraver on copper or brass; hence, an engraver of copper plates for printing upon paper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n., a., n., etc. Same as Cartographer, Cartographic, Cartography, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who practice the art or business of writing or engrossing. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. See chirographist, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chirographer of fines (Old Eng. Law), an officer in the court of common pleas, who engrossed fines. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who describes or makes a map of a district or region. “The chorographers of Italy.” Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A geographical antiquary; one who investigates the locality of ancient places. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who is engaged in chromolithography. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who writes a chronography; a chronologer. Tooke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who takes motion pictures with a movie camera, especially one expert in the art. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. one who exhibits motion pictures; an operator of a motion picture projector; a projectionist. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

-- Cin`e*mat`o*graph"ic a. -- Cin`e*mat`o*graph"ic*al*ly adv. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. One who describes or writes about comets. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who describes the world or universe, including the heavens and the earth. [ 1913 Webster ]

The name of this island is nowhere found among the old and ancient cosmographers. Robynson (More's Utopia). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who writes in cipher, or secret characters. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. one who studies methods for encoding and decoding messages; one who studies cryptography. [ PJC ]

n. One who describes crystals, or the manner of their formation; one versed in crystallography. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Demon + -graph + -er. ] A demonologist. [ R. ] Am. Cyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; an elegy + -graph + -er. ] An elegist. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. One who investigates ethnography.

n. One versed in geography.

n. [ Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; tongue + &unr_; to write. See 3d Gloss. ] A writer of a glossary; a commentator; a scholiast. Hayward. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Linguistics) a written symbol that is used to represent speech.
Syn. -- character, graphic symbol. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One of the writers of the hagiographa; a writer of lives of the saints. Shipley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who writes about or describes the sea. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Heresiography. ] One who writes on heresies. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who describes organic tissues; an histologist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. historiographus, Gr. "istoriogra`fos; "istori`a history + gra`fein to write: cf. F. historiographe. ] An historian; a writer of history; especially, one appointed or designated to write a history; also, a title bestowed by some governments upon historians of distinction. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office of an historiographer. Saintsbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Horologiography. ] A maker of clocks, watches, or dials. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One skilled in the hydrography; one who surveys, or draws maps or charts of, the sea, lakes, or other waters, with the adjacent shores; one who describes the sea or other waters. Boyle.

n. 1. One who writes on the subject of hymns. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A writer or composed of hymns. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A maker of images. Fairholt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. lexikogra`fos; lexiko`n dictionary + gra`fein to write: cf. F. lexicographe. See Lexicon. ] The author or compiler of a lexicon or dictionary. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach; and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who lithographs; one who practices lithography. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A chronicler; one who writes history in a condensed manner with short simple sentences. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One skilled in logography. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. mimographus, Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; a mime + &unr_; to write: cf. F. mimographe. ] A writer of mimes. Sir T. Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A writer of a monograph. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. myqogra`fos; my^qos + gra`fein to write. ] A composer of fables. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A scientist who studies physical and biological aspects of the seas. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One versed in orthography; one who spells words correctly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An osteologist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n., Same as Paleographer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One skilled in paleography; a paleographist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A writer of paragraphs; a paragraphist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; proverb + -graph + -er. ] A collector or writer of proverbs. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]