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(Zool.) The larva of the lacewinged flies (Chrysopa), which feeds voraciously upon aphids. The name is also applied to the larvæ of the ladybugs (Coccinella). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who writes his own life; an autobiographer. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Gr. &unr_; book + &unr_; a burial. ] One who hides away books, as in a tomb. [ R. ] Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A calligrapher [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who practices cerography. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. An engraver on copper or brass; hence, an engraver of copper plates for printing upon paper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A chirographer; a writer or engrosser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who tells fortunes by examining the hand. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Cryptographer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A student of, or one versed in, epigraphy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An epitapher. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Graphoscope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A lexicographer. [ R. ] Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who describes lichens; one versed in lichenography. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An artist who, by mechanical means, multiplies copies of works of art. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who writes on the subject of metals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who writes a monograph. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One versed in organography. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who spells words correctly; an orthographer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Uranographist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One versed in paleography; a paleographer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A paragrapher. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or relating to a paragraphist. [ R. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Phonographer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A photographer. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ L. psalmographus, Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; a psalm + &unr_; to write. ] A writer of psalms, or sacred songs and hymns. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. ska`fh a trough. ] An ancient mode of punishing criminals among the Persians, by confining the victim in a trough, with his head and limbs smeared with honey or the like, and exposed to the sun and to insects until he died. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A selenographer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One skilled in siderography. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sphenographer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One skilled in steganography; a cryptographer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A stenographer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One skilled in telegraphy; a telegrapher. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A topographer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One practiced in uranography. [ 1913 Webster ]