Writer

1. n. 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.
2. n. One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk.
3. n. One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer of novels.

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.