writership

[English writer; -ship.] The office or position of a writer. "The vacancies to be filled were in eight writerships in the office of the secretary of state for India."- Scribner's Magazine, June, 1877, p 244. The word is generally used in connection with Indian appointments. writhe, *wrethe, *writh-en, *wryth-en (pa. t. writhed , * wroth , pa. par. writhed , * writhen ), v. t. & i. [Lat. wridhan to twist, to wind about (pa. wradh , pa, par. wridhen ); cogn. with Icel. ridha (for vridha , pa. t. reidh , pa. par. ridhinn ); Danish vride; Sw. vrida to wring, twist, turn, wrest; O. H. Ger. rid an ; M. H. Ger. riden. From the same root as Latin ver to =to turn, and English worth , v. From writhe are derived wrath , wroth , wreath, wrest , and wrist .] IMG:content-1060.png:[blocks in formation] B. Intransitive: 1. To twist the body about, as in pain; as, He writhed in agony. *2. To turn away. "Doest thou looke after, that Christ should heare thee, when thou callest him father, when thou writhest away from the step-children, calling thee mother?"-Vives: Instruction of a Christian Woman , bk. ii., ch. xii. *3. To twist or twine one's self. *4. To advance by vermicular motion; to wiggle. "Li ome Vivien, holding by his heel, Writhed toward him, slided up his knee and sat." Tennyson: Vivien, 88. *writh'-el, *writh-le, v . t. [Eng. writhe ; frequent. suff. -el, -le.] To wrinkle. "The skin that was white and smooth is turned tawnie and writhel'd ."-Bp. Hall : St. Paul's Combat.