What is "chirographer"

Chirographer \Chi*rog"ra*pher\, n.

1. One who practice the art or business of writing or engrossing.

2. See chirographist, 2.

   Chirographer of fines (Old Eng. Law), an officer in the court of common pleas, who engrossed fines.

n. (alternative form of chirographist English)

A chirographer can refer to

• Someone who studies chirography
• a machine patented in 1842 by Charles Thurber which was an early form of typewriter.
• "The officer appointed to 'engross fines' (chirographs), in the Court of Common Pleas (Abolished in 1833.)" ("chirographer, n.", Oxford English Dictionary)