Author

1. v. t. To tell; to say; to declare.
2. n. The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator.
3. n. One who composes or writes a book; a composer, as distinguished from an editor, translator, or compiler.
4. n. The editor of a periodical.
5. n. An informant.
6. v. t. To occasion; to originate.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.