One who writes, especially as an occupation, One who does writing as a business; a professional scribe, scrivener, or amanuensis_ used specifically in England of clerks to the former East India Company, and of temporary copying clerks in government offices; in Scotland, loosely, of law agents, solicitors, attorneys, etc., and sometimes of their principal clerks, One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author

Plural form of article, slang Breeches; coat and waistcoat, law the period during which a person works as an articled clerk; articling

A person who keeps the records and performs the regular business of a court, legislative body, or municipal district, A person who works at a sales counter or service desk, as at a store or hotel