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- n French playwright (1791-1861)
- n informal terms for journalists
- n someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts
- n a sharp-pointed awl for marking wood or metal to be cut
- v score a line on with a pointed instrument, as in metalworking
- There's no writer's block for this perpetual scribe; he's never missed a deadline.
- Since film critic Gene Siskel died in February, questions have swirled about the future of the popular TV show he hosted with fellow Chicago scribe Roger Ebert.
- This week Sports Illustrated football scribe Peter King, author of the religiously read Monday Morning Quarterback column on si.