N. writing, chirography, stelography, cerography, penmanship, craftmanship, quill driving, typewriting, writing, manuscript, ms, literae scriptae, these presents, stroke of the pen, dash of the pen, coupe de plume, line, headline, pen and ink, letter, uncial writing, cuneiform character, arrowhead, ogham, runes, hieroglyphic, contraction, brahmi, devanagari, nagari, script, shorthand, stenography, brachygraphy, tachygraphy, secret writing, writing in cipher, cryptography, stenography, phonography, pasigraphy, polygraphy, logography, copy, transcript, rescript, rough copy, fair copy, handwriting, signature, sign manual, autograph, monograph, holograph, hand, fist, calligraphy, good hand, running hand, flowing hand, cursive hand, legible hand, bold hand, cacography, griffonage, barbouillage, bad hand, cramped hand, crabbed hand, illegible hand, scribble, pattes de mouche, ill-formed letters, pothooks and hangers, stationery, pen, quill, goose quill, pencil, style, paper, foolscap, parchment, vellum, papyrus, tablet, slate, marble, pillar, table, blackboard, ink bottle, ink horn, ink pot, ink stand, ink well, typewriter, transcription, inscription, superscription, graphology, composition, authorship, cacoethes scribendi, graphoidea, graphomania, phrenoia, writer, scribe, amanuensis, scrivener, secretary, clerk, penman, copyist, transcriber, quill driver, stenographer, typewriter, typist, writer for the press

V. write, pen, copy, engross, write out, write out fair, transcribe, scribble, scrawl, scrabble, scratch, interline, stain paper, write down, sign, enface, compose, indite, draw up, draft, formulate, dictate, inscribe, throw on paper, dash off, manifold, take up the pen, take pen in hand, shed ink, spill ink, dip one's pen in ink

Adj. writing, written, in writing, in black and white, under one's hand, uncial, runic, cuneiform, hieroglyphical

Adv. currente calamo, pen in hand

Phr. audacter et sincere, le style est l'homme meme, "nature's noblest gift - my gray goose quill", scribendi recte sapere et principium et fons, "that mighty instrument of little men", "the pen became a clarion"

N. booklet, writing, work, volume, tome, opuscule, tract, tractate, livret, brochure, libretto, handbook, codex, manual, pamphlet, enchiridion, circular, publication, chap book, part, issue, number livraison, album, portfolio, periodical, serial, magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal, paper, bill, sheet, broadsheet, leaf, leaflet, fly leaf, page, quire, ream chapter, section, head, article, paragraph, passage, clause, endpapers, frontispiece, cover, binding, folio, quarto, octavo, duodecimo, sextodecimo, octodecimo, encyclopedia, encompilation, library, bibliotheca, press, definitive work, treatise, comprehensive treatise (dissertation) 595, writer, author, litterateur, essayist, journalism, pen, scribbler, the scribbling race, literary hack, grub-street writer, writer for the press, gentleman of the press, representative of the press, adjective jerker, diaskeaust, ghost, hack writer, ink slinger, publicist, reporter, penny a liner, editor, subeditor, playwright, poet, bookseller, publisher, bibliopole, bibliopolist, librarian, bookstore, bookshop, bookseller's shop, knowledge of books, bibliography, book learning

Phr. "among the giant fossils of my past", craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux, "for authors nobler palms remain", "i lived to write and wrote to live", "look in thy heart and write", "there is no past so long as books shall live", "the public mind is the creation of the master-writers", "volumes that i prize above my dukedom"

N. lawyer, attorney, legal counsel, counsel, counsellor, counsellor at law, attorney at law, jurist, legist, civilian, pundit, publicist, juris consult, legal adviser, advocate, barrister, barrister at law, king's or queen's counsel, k, c, q, c, silk gown, leader, sergeant-at-law, bencher, tubman, judge, bar, legal profession, bar association, association of trial lawyers, officer of the court, gentleman of the long robe, junior bar, outer bar, inner bar, equity draftsman, conveyancer, pleader, special pleader, solicitor, proctor, notary, notary public, scrivener, cursitor, writer, writer to the signet, s, s, c, limb of the law, pettifogger, vakil, legal beagle, legal secretary, legal assistant, law student

V. practice law, practice at the bar, practice within the bar, plead, call to the bar, be called to the bar, be called within the bar, take silk, take to the law, give legal counsel, provide legal counsel

Adj. learned in the law, at the bar, forensic, esquire, esquired

Phr. banco regis