scribe

noun scribes

1. Someone who writes; a draughtsperson; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis, secretary, notary, or copyist. [T]he pleasure of writing on wax with a stylus is exemplified by the fine, flowing hand of a Roman scribe who made out the birth certificate of Herennia Gemella, born March 128 AD.
2. A person who writes books or documents by hand as a profession. The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written
3. informal A journalist.
4. 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.
5. A very sharp, steel drawing implement used in engraving and etching, a scriber.

Similar: amanuensis, scrivener, tabellion

verb scribes · scribing · scribed

1. To write.
2. To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe. There—at Ioue wexed wroth, and in his ſpright / Did inly grudge, yet did it well conceale; / And bade Dan Phœbus Scribe her Appellation ſeale.
3. To record, as a scribe.
4. To write or draw with a scribe.
5. To cut (something) in order to fit it closely to an irregular surface, as a baseboard to a floor which is out of level, a board to the curves of a moulding, etc.
6. To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.