Write, v. i. 1. To form characters, letters, or figures, as representative of sounds or ideas; to express words and sentences by written signs. Chaucer.
So it stead you, I will write,
Please you command. Shak.
2. To be regularly employed or occupied in writing, copying, or accounting; to act as clerk or amanuensis; as, he writes in one of the public offices.
3. To frame or combine ideas, and express them in written words; to play the author; to recite or relate in books; to compose.
They can write up to the dignity and character of the authors. Felton.
4. To compose or send letters.
He wrote for all the Jews that went out of his realm up into Jewry concerning their freedom. 1 Esdras iv. 49.