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Scribe : (noun)
1: French playwright (1791-1861) [syn: Scribe, 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]
(verb)
1: score a line on with a pointed instrument, as in
metalworking
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Scribe : \Scribe\, v. i.
To make a mark.
With the separated points of a pair of spring dividers
scribe around the edge of the templet. --A. M. Mayer.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Scribe : \Scribe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scribed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Scribing.]
1. To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe. --Spenser.
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
scribe, with the compasses the line that he afterwards
cuts.
3. To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.
Scribing iron, an iron-pointed instrument for scribing, or
marking, casks and logs.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Scribe :
A text-formatting language by Brian Reid.
(1994-12-01)
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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