n. A clergyman; a priest; an ecclesiastic; a man in holy orders.n. A learned man; a man of letters; a scholar; a writer or author; originally, a man who could read, an attainment at one time confined chiefly to ecclesiastics.n. The layman who leads in reading the responses in the service of the Church of England. Also called parish clerk.n. An officer of a court, legislature, municipal corporation, or other body, whose duty generally is to keep the records of the body to which he is attached, and perform the routine business: as, clerk of court; town clerk; clerk to a school-board, etc. See secretary.n. One who is employed in an office, public or private, or in a shop or warehouse, to keep records or accounts; one who is employed by another as a writer or amanuensis.n. In the United States, an assistant in business, whether or not a keeper of accounts; especially, a retail salesman.n. In the United States, a popular name for the head of the meteorological department of the Signal Service.To write; compose.To serve as a clerk; act as accountant or salesman: frequently used in the phrase to clerk it.