Word Meanings - FABLER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A writer of fables; a fabulist; a dealer in untruths or falsehoods. Br. Hall.

WRITER
1. One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk. They that handle the pen of the writer. Judg. v. 14. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Ps. xlv. 1. 2. One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer
FABULIST
One who invents or writes fables.
WRITERSHIP
The office of a writer.
DEALER
1. One who deals; one who has to do, or has concern, with others; esp., a trader, a trafficker, a shopkeeper, a broker, or a merchant; as, a dealer in dry goods; a dealer in stocks; a retail dealer. 2. One who distributes cards to the players.
PLAYWRITER
A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
STORY-WRITER
1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
DOUBLE DEALER
One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person. L'Estrange.
UNDERWRITER
One who underwrites his name to the conditions of an insurance policy, especially of a marine policy; an insurer.
NEWS-WRITER
One who gathered news for, and wrote, news-letters. Macaulay.
TYPEWRITER
1. An instrument for writing by means of type, a typewheel, or the like, in which the operator makes use of a sort of keyboard, in order to obtain printed impressions of the characters upon paper. 2. One who uses such an instrument.