(skrīb) noun
1. One who writes or copies manuscripts.
2. A clerk, public writer, or amanuensis.
3. An author, penman, or journalist: used humorously.
4. An ancient Jewish teacher, interpreter, or writer of the Mosaic law.
5. A pointed instrument for marking wood, bricks, etc.
—v. scribed, scrib·ing v.t.
1. To mark or scratch with a pointed instrument.
2. To write, inscribe, or engrave.
3. In carpentry, to mark and fit closely.
—v.i.
4. Rare To write; work as a scribe. [<L scriba <scribere write]
—scrib′al adjective

(skrēb), Augustin Eugène,
1791–1861, French dramatist.