One who negotiates the discount of bills. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who enters accounts or names, etc., in a book; a bookkeeper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. brocour, from a word akin to broken, bruken, to use, enjoy, possess, digest, fr. AS. brūcan to use, enjoy; cf. Fries. broker, F. brocanteur. See Brook, v. t. ] 1. One who transacts business for another; an agent. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) An agent employed to effect bargains and contracts, as a middleman or negotiator, between other persons, for a compensation commonly called brokerage. He takes no possession, as broker, of the subject matter of the negotiation. He generally contracts in the names of those who employ him, and not in his own. Story. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A dealer in money, notes, bills of exchange, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A dealer in secondhand goods. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A pimp or procurer. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bill broker, one who buys and sells notes and bills of exchange. --
Curbstone broker or
Street broker, an operator in stocks (not a member of the Stock Exchange) who executes orders by running from office to office, or by transactions on the street. [ U.S. ] --
Exchange broker, one who buys and sells uncurrent money, and deals in exchanges relating to money. --
Insurance broker, one who is agent in procuring insurance on vessels, or against fire. --
Pawn broker. See Pawnbroker. --
Real estate broker, one who buys and sells lands, and negotiates loans, etc., upon mortgage. --
Ship broker, one who acts as agent in buying and selling ships, procuring freight, etc. --
Stock broker. See Stockbroker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The business or employment of a broker. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The fee, reward, or commission, given or changed for transacting business as a broker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a financial specialist who trades for his own account and so acts both as a broker and principal. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Mean; servile. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The business of a broker. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And with extorting, cozening, forfeiting,
And tricks belonging unto brokery. Marlowe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, chokes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A stiff wide cravat; a stock. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Com.) The cocoanut. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ A mode of spelling introduced by the London customhouse to distinguish more widely between this and other articles spelt much in the same manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an implement for cooking. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. The art or process of preparing food for the table, by dressing, compounding, and the application of heat; cooking. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A delicacy; a dainty. [ Obs. ] R. North. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. kro`kos saffron. ] A cultivator of saffron; a dealer in saffron. [ Obs. ] Holinshed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) An American sole (Achirus lineatus syn. Achirus achirus), related to the European sole, but of no market value. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. hōcor. ] Scorn; derision; abusive talk. [ Obs. ] -- Ho"ker*ly, adv. [Obs.] Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

n. 1. One who, or that which, hooks. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) (a) A Dutch vessel with two masts. (b) A fishing boat with one mast, used on the coast of Ireland. (c) A sailor's contemptuous term for any antiquated craft. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of a person in some way.
Syn. -- trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, skulduggery, skullduggery. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. One who makes jokes or jests. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Card Playing) See Best bower, under 2d Bower. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Card Playing) An extra card usually included in a deck of playing cards, having the same design as the others on the back, but on the face having a picture of a jester. It is not included in the deck used in most games, but in certain games may be included and then takes on a special value, such as the highest-valued card, or a wild card. [ PJC ]

4. A clause placed in a document, such as a contract or a piece of legislation, not itself appearing significant, but in a subtle way substantially changing the effect of the document. [ PJC ]

5. Hence: Any fact or condition which is unknown or not apparent, which reverses an apparently advantageous position; a kicker. [ PJC ]

6. A person; a fellow; a chap; -- usually used in a mildly disparaging sense; as, who's the joker who left the ice cream on the table?. [ PJC ]

n. 1. One who looks. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A person who is physically very attractive, especially a beautiful woman. [ PJC ]

Looker-on, a spectator; an onlooker; one that looks on, but has no agency or part in an affair. [ 1913 Webster ]

Did not this fatal war affront thy coast,
Yet sattest thou an idle looker-on ? Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Neuro- + keratin. ] (Physiol. Chem.) A substance, resembling keratin, present in nerve tissue, as in the sheath of the axis cylinder of medullated nerve fibers. Like keratin it resists the action of most chemical agents, and by decomposition with sulphuric acid yields leucin and tyrosin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) See Ocher. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person who observes an event; a looker-on; a spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who overlooks. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who makes a business of lending money on the security of personal property pledged or deposited in his keeping. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Poke to push. ] 1. One who pokes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which pokes or is used in poking, especially a metal bar or rod used in stirring a fire of coals. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A poking-stick. Decker. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Zool.) The poachard. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Poker picture, a picture formed in imitation of bisterwashed drawings, by singeing the surface of wood with a heated poker or other iron. Fairholt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Of uncertain etymol. ] A game at cards derived from brag, and first played about 1835 in the Southwestern United States. Johnson's Cyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

A poker hand is played with a poker deck, composed of fifty-two cards, of thirteeen values, each card value being represented once in each of four "suits", namely spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs. The game is played in many variations, but almost invariably the stage of decision as to who wins occurs when each player has five cards (or chooses five cards from some larger number available to him). The winner usually is the player with the highest-valued hand, but, in some variations, the winner may be the player with the lowest-valued hand. The value of a hand is ranked by hand types, representing the relationships of the cards to each other. [ The hand types are ranked by the probability of receiving such a hand when dealt five cards. ] Within each hand type the value is also ranked by the values of the cards. The hand types are labeled, in decreasing value: five of a kind; royal flush; straight flush; four of a kind; full house (coll. full boat, or boat); flush; straight; three of a kind; two pairs; one pair; and, when the contending players have no hands of any of the above types, the player with the highest-valued card wins -- if there is a tie, the next-highest-valued card of the tied players determines the winner, and so on. If two players have the same type of hand, the value of the cards within each type determines the winner; thus, if two players both have three of a kind (and no other player has a higher type of hand), the player whose three matched cards have the highest card value is the winner.

n. [ Cf. Dan. pokker the deuce, devil, also W. pwci, a hobgoblin, bugbear, and E. puck. ] Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear. [ Colloq. U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Infested by pokers; adapted to excite fear; as, a pokerish place. [ Colloq. U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

There is something pokerish about a deserted dwelling. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Stiff like a poker. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

. 1. (Cookery) a pot with a lid which may be tightly bound to the bottom part, forming a vessel which can withstand some gas pressure from within. It is used to heat foods in water or steam to a temperature somewhat above the boiling point of water, allowing the cooking process to be accomplished more quickly than otherwise. [ PJC ]

2. Fig., a situation involving intense psychological pressure due to multiple urgent demands, as in certain job situations. [ PJC ]

n. One who revokes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Rookeries 1. The breeding place of a colony of rooks; also, the birds themselves. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A breeding place of other gregarious birds, as of herons, penguins, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The breeding ground of seals, esp. of the fur seals. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A dilapidated building with many rooms and occupants; a cluster of dilapidated or mean buildings. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A brothel. [ Low ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } (Zool.) The lyrie. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A broker who deals in railway or other shares and securities. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who dries or preserves by smoke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who smokes tobacco or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A smoking car or compartment, such as a car on a train where smoking is allowed. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A gathering for smoking and social intercourse. [ Obsolescent. ]

That evening A Company had a “smoker” in one of the disused huts of Shorncliffe Camp. Strand Mag. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

5. An amateurish pornographic movie. [ Colloq. ]

black smoker, a vent at the bottom of the ocean, usually at a mid-ocean ridge, through which large quantities of water carrying minerals flow, producing a jet of fluid with the appearance of black smoke. The ocean water in crevices below the vent is heated to temperatures near 400° C, and dissolves quantities of metal salts, such as of copper, zinc, gold, and manganese. When the saturated mineral solutions exit the vent, cooling by contact with the ocean causes the metals to precipitate, mainly as sulfide or sulfate salts. Unusual forms of life such as tube worms have been found to live in the areas near black smokers. Additional information is available from The Natural History Museum of London and The American Museum of Natural History Expeditions.

n. A broker who deals in stocks. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ D. See Stoke, v. t. ] 1. One who is employed to tend a furnace and supply it with fuel, especially the furnace of a locomotive or of a marine steam boiler; also, a machine for feeding fuel to a fire. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A fire poker. [ R. ] C. Richardson (Dict.). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cures worked by Greatrix the stroker. Bp. Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mining) A person who inspects a mine daily; -- called also underviewer. [ 1913 Webster ]