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

writer \writ"er\, n. as. wrimactere.
   1913 webster
   1. one who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk.
      1913 webster

            they came that handle the pen of the writer.
                                                  --judg. v. 14.
      1913 webster

            my tongue is the pen of a ready writer. --ps. xlv.
                                                  1.
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   2. one who is engaged in literary composition as a
      profession; an author; as, a writer of novels.
      1913 webster

            this pitch, as ancient writers do report, doth
            defile.                               --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. a clerk of a certain rank in the service of the late east
      india company, who, after serving a certain number of
      years, became a factor.
      1913 webster

   writer of the tallies eng. law, an officer of the
      exchequer of england, who acted as clerk to the auditor of
      the receipt, and wrote the accounts upon the tallies from
      the tellers' bills. the use of tallies in the exchequer
      has been abolished. --wharton law. dict.

   writer's cramp, writer's palsy or writer's spasm
      med., a painful spasmodic affection of the muscles of
      the fingers, brought on by excessive use, as in writing,
      violin playing, telegraphing, etc. called also
      scrivener's palsy.

   writer to the signet. see under signet.
      1913 webster
see also:
writer of the tallies writer's cramp writer's palsy writer's spasm scrivener's palsy writer to the signet 
signet 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

writer
     n 1: writes books or stories or articles or the like
          professionally for pay syn: author
     2: a person who is able to write and has written something
see also:
author 

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

84 moby thesaurus words for "writer":
   addressee, advertising writer, amanuensis, annalist, art critic,
   author, authoress, belletrist, bibliographer, calligrapher,
   chirographer, clerk, coauthor, collaborator, columnist,
   communicator, compiler, composer, copier, copyist, copywriter,
   correspondent, creative writer, critic, dance critic, descanter,
   diarist, discourser, disquisitor, drama critic, dramatist,
   encyclopedist, essayist, expositor, free lance, free-lance writer,
   ghost, ghostwriter, humorist, inditer, ink spiller, inkslinger,
   letter writer, letterer, literary artist, literary craftsman,
   literary critic, literary man, litterateur, logographer,
   magazine writer, man of letters, monographer, monographist,
   music critic, newspaperman, novelettist, novelist, pamphleteer,
   pen, pen pal, pencil driver, penman, penner, penwoman, poet,
   prose writer, recording secretary, reviewer, scenario writer,
   scenarist, scribbler, scribe, scriptwriter, scrivener, secretary,
   short-story writer, storyteller, technical writer, tractation,
   transcriber, word painter, word-slinger, wordsmith

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