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On-Yomi: — Kun-Yomi: しる.す

Koohii stories:

1) [rgravina] 4-7-2007(165): A scribe writes down the words spoken by a snake (i.e. a lawyer).

2) [Transtic] 29-12-2007(109): Snakes have no hands. So, when a snake needs to write down something, it has to call in a SCRIBE, who will write down all the sayings of the snake.

3) [samesong] 25-8-2008(26): This scribe was truely badass - to jot down words, he would grab the nearest snake and squeeze it's venom out of it's fangs and use it as ink.. no pen for this guy.

4) [elhnad] 12-1-2008(26): A scribe writes down the words using the snakes venom.

5) [rizzo] 20-10-2005(24): The scribes of yore had no pens or paper. To transcribe words they had to train snakes to twist their bodies into letters as they were spoken to.