[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

scribe \scribe\, v. i.
   to make a mark.
   1913 webster

         with the separated points of a pair of spring dividers
         scribe around the edge of the templet.   --a. m. mayer.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

scribe \scribe\ skrimacb, n. l. scriba, fr. scribere to
   write; cf. gr. ska`rifos a splinter, pencil, style for
   writing, e. scarify. cf. ascribe, describe, script,
   scrivener, scrutoire.
   1. one who writes; a draughtsman; a writer for another;
      especially, an offical or public writer; an amanuensis or
      secretary; a notary; a copyist.
      1913 webster

   2. 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.
      1913 webster
see also:
ascribe describe script scrivener scrutoire 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

scribe \scribe\ skrimacb, v. t. imp.  p. p. scribed
   skrimacbd; p. pr.  vb. n. scribing.
   1. to write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe. --spenser.
      1913 webster

   2. 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.
      1913 webster

   3. to score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.
      1913 webster

   scribing iron, an iron-pointed instrument for scribing, or
      marking, casks and logs.
      1913 webster
see also:
scribed scribing scribing iron 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

scribe
     n 1: french playwright 1791-1861 syn: augustin eugene scribe
     2: informal terms for journalists syn: scribbler, penman
     3: someone employed to make written copies of documents and
        manuscripts syn: copyist, scrivener
     4: a sharp-pointed awl for marking wood or metal to be cut
        syn: scriber, scratch awl
     v : score a line on with a pointed instrument, as in
         metalworking
see also:
augustin eugene scribe scribbler penman copyist scrivener scriber 
scratch awl 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

155 moby thesaurus words for "scribe":
   levite, accountant, advertising writer, amanuensis, annalist,
   archivist, art critic, author, authoress, baal kore, belletrist,
   bibliographer, bookkeeper, calligrapher, cantor, carve, chase,
   chief rabbi, chirographer, clerk, coauthor, collaborator,
   columnist, commentator, compiler, composer, copier, copy, copy out,
   copyist, copywriter, creative writer, critic, dance critic,
   diarist, documentalist, draft, drama critic, dramatist, dramaturge,
   draw up, edit, editor, enchase, encyclopedist, enface, engrave,
   engraver, engross, essayist, etch, filing clerk, free lance,
   free-lance writer, ghost, ghostwriter, gossip columnist, grave,
   hack, high priest, humorist, incise, indite, inditer, ink spiller,
   inkslinger, inscribe, journalist, kohen, letterer, librarian,
   literary artist, literary craftsman, literary critic, literary man,
   litterateur, logographer, magazine writer, make a recension,
   make out, man of letters, mark, marker, monographer, music critic,
   newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, notary, notary public,
   novelettist, novelist, pamphleteer, paragraphist, pen, pencil,
   pencil driver, penman, penner, penny-a-liner, penwoman, playwright,
   poet, priest, prose writer, prothonotary, push the pen,
   put in writing, rabbi, rabbin, recense, record, record clerk,
   recorder, recording secretary, recordist, register, registrar,
   reporter, reviewer, revise, rewrite, scenario writer, scenarist,
   score, scorekeeper, scorer, scratch, scribbler, scriptwriter,
   scrive, scrivener, scroll, secretary, short-story writer,
   sob sister, spill ink, spoil paper, stenographer, stonecutter,
   storyteller, superscribe, technical writer, timekeeper, trace,
   transcribe, transcriber, type, word painter, word-slinger,
   wordsmith, write, write down, write out, writer

[6] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

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