Scribe

n. [Fr. scribe, It. & Lat. scriba, from Lat. scribere, to write, Ger. schreiben, D. schrijven, Dan. skrive, Sw. skrifva.]

1. One who writes; a writer; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis, secretary, notary, or copyist.
2. (Jewish & Sacred Hist.) A writer and a doctor of the law; a man of learning; one skilled in the law; one who read and explained the law to the people.

v. t. [imp. & p. p. SCRIBED; p. pr. & vb. n. SCRIBING.]

1. To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe. [Obs.] Spenser.
2. (Carp.) (a.) To mark or fit by a rule or compasses; to fit, as one edge of a board, &c., to another edge, or to a surface. (b.) To fit, as one piece to another, in such a way that the fibers of the two pieces shall be perpendicular to each other.