n. He who, or that which, applies. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖pos>n. [ F. ] A workshop; a studio. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. bandoulière (cf. It. bandoliera, Sp. bandolera), fr. F. bande band, Sp. & It. banda. See Band, n. ] 1. A broad leather belt formerly worn by soldiers over the right shoulder and across the breast under the left arm. Originally it was used for supporting the musket and twelve cases for charges, but later only as a cartridge belt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One of the leather or wooden cases in which the charges of powder were carried. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. (Falconry) The turn of a hawk upon the wing to recover herself, when she misses her aim in the stoop. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The fierce and eager hawks, down thrilling from the skies,
Make sundry canceliers ere they the fowl can reach. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ F. chanceler, OF. canseler, to waver, orig. to cross the legs so as not to fall; from the same word as E. cancel. ] (Falconry) To turn in flight; -- said of a hawk. [ Obs. ] Nares. [ 1913 Webster ]

He makes his stoop; but wanting breath, is forced
To cancelier. Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. cavalier, It. cavaliere, LL. caballarius, fr. L. caballus. See Cavalcade, and cf. Chevalier, Caballine. ] 1. A military man serving on horseback; a knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A gay, sprightly, military man; hence, a gallant. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One of the court party in the time of king Charles I. as contrasted with a Roundhead or an adherent of Parliament. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Fort.) A work of more than ordinary height, rising from the level ground of a bastion, etc., and overlooking surrounding parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. offhand; unceremonious; gay; easy; frank. Opposed to serious. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

The plodding, persevering scupulous accuracy of the one, and the easy, cavalier, verbal fluency of the other, form a complete contrast. Hazlitt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. High-spirited. [ Obs. ] “The people are naturally not valiant, and not much cavalier.” Suckling. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Supercilious; haughty; disdainful; curt; brusque. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Of or pertaining to the party of King Charles I. “An old Cavalier family.” Beaconsfield. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat like a cavalier. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The practice or principles of cavaliers. Sir. W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a supercilious, disdainful, or haughty manner; arrogantly. Junius. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A disdainful manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Sp. caballero. See Cavalier. ] A cavalier; a gallant; a libertine. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. See Chandler. ] 1. A candlestick, lamp, stand, gas fixture, or the like, having several branches; esp., one hanging from the ceiling. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Fort.) A movable parapet, serving to support fascines to cover pioneers. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. LL. caballarius. See Cavaller. ] 1. A horseman; a knight; a gallant young man. “Mount, chevaliers; to arms.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A member of certain orders of knighthood. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖Chevalier d'industrie ety>[ F. ], one who lives by persevering fraud; a pickpocket; a sharper. --
The Chevalier St. George (Eng. Hist.), James Francis Edward Stuart (son of James II.), called “The Pretender.” --
The Young Chevalier, Charles Edward Stuart, son of the Chevalier St. George. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. colier. See Coal. ] 1. One engaged in the business of digging mineral coal or making charcoal, or in transporting or dealing in coal. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A vessel employed in the coal trade. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Collieries [ Cf. Coalery, Collier. ] 1. The place where coal is dug; a coal mine, and the buildings, etc., belonging to it. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The coal trade. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who complies, yields, or obeys; one of an easy, yielding temper. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. OF. cordel, F. cordeau, dim. fr. corde string, rope. See Cord. ] 1. (Eccl. Hist.) A Franciscan; -- so called in France from the girdle of knotted cord worn by all Franciscans. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Fr. Hist.) A member of a French political club of the time of the first Revolution, of which Danton and Marat were members, and which met in an old Cordelier convent in Paris. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ F. crédit credit & mobilier personal, pertaining to personal property. ] A joint stock company, formed for general banking business, or for the construction of public works, by means of loans on personal estate, after the manner of the crédit foncier on real estate. In practice, however, this distinction has not been strictly observed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who fondles; a trifler; as, dalliers with pleasant words. Asham. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. occurring at a prior time; as, on earlier occasions. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Formed from electric in imitation of chandelier. ] A branching frame, often of ornamental design, to support electric illuminating lamps. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. espalier, fr. It. spalliera, fr. spalla shoulder, the same word as F. épaule. See Epaulet. ] (Hort.) A railing or trellis upon which fruit trees or shrubs are trained, as upon a wall; a tree or row of trees so trained. [ 1913 Webster ]

And figs from standard and espalier join. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Espaliered p. pr. & vb. n. Espaliering. ] To form an espalier of, or to protect by an espalier. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ OF. & F. épaulière. See Espalier. ] A defense for the shoulder, composed of flexible overlapping plates of metal, used in the 15th century; -- the origin of the modern epaulette. Fairholt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Form Fly, v.; cf. Flyer ] 1. One who flies or flees; a runaway; a fugitive. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mach.) A fly. See Fly, n., 9, and 13 (b). [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Spinning) See Flyer, n., 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Arch.) See Flyer, n., 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. An aëroplane or flying machine. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. Goldsmith's foil. [ R. ] Sprat. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. fusilier, fr. fusil. ] (Mil.) (a) Formerly, a soldier armed with a fusil. Hence, in the plural: (b) A title now borne by some regiments and companies; as, “The Royal Fusiliers, ” etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Formed from gas, in imitation of chandelier. ] A chandelier arranged to burn gas.
Syn. -- gaselier. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Formed from gas, in imitation of chandelier. ] A chandelier arranged to burn gas.
Syn. -- gasalier. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. Same as Gasalier. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ It. gondoliere: cf. F. gondolier. ] A man who rows a gondola. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The name by which Jean Grolier de Servier (1479-1565), a French bibliophile, is commonly known; -- used in naming a certain style of binding, a design, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Grolier binding, a book binding decorated with a pattern imitated from those given covers of books bound for Jean Grolier, and bearing his name and motto. --
Grolier design or
Grolier school, the pattern of interlacing bars, bands, or ribbons, with little scrolls of slender gold lines, assumed to be an imitation of the designs on Jean Grolier's book bindings. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ From Hale to pull. ] A kind of net for catching birds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a haulage contractor.
Syn. -- hauler. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ See Hele, v. t. ] One who heles or covers; hence, a tiler, slater, or thatcher. [ Obs. ] [ Written also heler. ] Usher. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who is extravagant in pretensions, opinions, or manners; one who is highfaluting. Swift. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. a person of great ability and ambition. [ wns=1 ]
Syn. -- highflyer. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. being excessively or hypocritically pious while condemning others as being less virtuous than oneself.
Syn. -- pietistic, pietistical, pharisaic, pharisaical, sanctimonious, self-righteous. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. an owner or manager of a hotel or hotels.
Syn. -- hotelkeeper, hotel manager, hotelman, hosteller. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A mode of raising money, or sustaining one's credit, by the use of paper which is merely nominal; -- called also kiting. -- n. See Kite, n., 6. [ Cant ] McElrath. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A small microphone worn around the neck on a supporting string or chain. [ PJC ]

{ or } n. [ after the Duchesse de La Valliere, a mistress of Louis XI. RHUD. ] A neck ornament consisting of a chain and single jewelled pendant, or drop; also, the pendant itself. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. A naturally occurring colorless glass made of almost pure silica, and found in fulgurites, which are produced by lightning striking sand.
Syn. -- quartz glass, vitreous silica, crystal. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ From Lie. ] One who lies down; one who rests or remains, as in concealment. [ 1913 Webster ]

There were liers in a ambush against him. Josh. viii. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. [ F. lierne. ] (Arch.) In Gothic vaulting, any rib which does not spring from the impost and is not a ridge rib, but passes from one boss or intersection of the principal ribs to another. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. mille thousand. ] A weight of the metric system, being one million grams; a metric ton. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., a woman. ] 1. A woman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) (a) Lawful issue born in wedlock, in distinction from an elder brother born of the same parents before their marriage; a lawful son. (b) (Civ. Law) A woman; a wife; a mother. Blount. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the manner or condition of a mulier; in wedlock; legitimately. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. mulierosus. ] Fond of woman. [ R. ] Charles Reade. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. mulierositas. ] A fondness for women. [ R. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]