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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A public clerk or secretary, especially in ancient times.
• noun A professional copyist of manuscripts and documents.
• noun A writer or journalist.
• intransitive verb To mark with a scriber.
• intransitive verb To write or inscribe.
• intransitive verb To work as a scribe.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun One who writes; a writer; a penman; especially, one skilled in penmanship.
• noun An official or public writer; a secretary; an amanuensis; a notary; a copyist.
• noun In Scripture usage:
• noun One whose duty it was to keep the official records of the Jewish nation, or to act as the private secretary of some distinguished person (Esther iii. 12).
• noun One of a body of men who constituted the theologians and jurists of the Jewish nation in the time of Christ.
• noun A pointed instrument used to mark lines on wood, metal, bricks, etc., to serve as a guide in sawing, cutting, etc.
• To write; mark; record.
• Specifically
• To mark, as wood, metal, bricks, etc., by scoring with a sharp point, as an awl, a scribe or scriber, or a pair of compasses. Hence To fit closely to another piece or part, as one piece of wood in furniture-making or Joiners' work to another of irregular or uneven form.
• To write.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb To make a mark.
• noun One who writes; a draughtsman; a writer for another; especially, an offical or public writer; an amanuensis or secretary; a notary; a copyist.
• noun (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.
• transitive verb To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe.
• transitive verb (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 scribes, with the compasses the line that he afterwards cuts.
• transitive verb To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.
• transitive verb an iron-pointed instrument for scribing, or marking, casks and logs.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun One who writes; a draughtsman; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis or secretary; a notary; a copyist.
• noun archaic A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.
• noun A very sharp, steel drawing implement used in engraving and etching, a scriber.
• noun A writer, especially a journalist.
• verb To write.
• verb To record.
• verb To write or draw with a scribe.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun informal terms for journalists
• noun French playwright (1791-1861)
• verb score a line on with a pointed instrument, as in metalworking
• noun a sharp-pointed awl for marking wood or metal to be cut
• noun someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts