Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for WRIT'ER
WRIT'ER, n.
- One who writes or has written.
- An author.
- 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. – Cyc.
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