n. One who abhors. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who abjures. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person who acquires. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who adheres; an adherent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who adjures. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who admeasures. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who admires; one who esteems or loves greatly. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who adores; a worshiper; one who admires or loves greatly; an ardent admirer. “An adorer of truth.” Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

I profess myself her adorer, not her friend. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Formed fr. the verb adulter, with the E. ending -er. See Advoutrer. ] 1. A man who commits adultery; a married man who has sexual intercourse with a woman not his wife. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Script.) A man who violates his religious covenant. Jer. ix. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. aventurier. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. One who adventures; as, the merchant adventurers; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A social pretender on the lookout for advancement. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. avoutre, avoltre, fr. L. adulter. Cf. Adulterer. ] An adulterer. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ OF. aforeur, LL. afforator. ] (Old Law) One who affeers. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who exposes to the air. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A frame on which clothes are aired or dried. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. One who answers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Wireless Teleg.) A device, one form of which consists of a scratched deposit of silver on glass, used in connection with the receiving apparatus for reading wireless signals. The electric waves falling on this contrivance increase its resistance several times. The anticoherer can be used in conjunction with a telephone. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. One who appears. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. arch- + treasurer. ] A chief treasurer. Specifically, the great treasurer of the German empire. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. See Arear. [ Obs. ] Ellis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who carries the armor or arms of another; an armiger. Judg. ix. 54. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. armurer, armerer, fr. F. armurter, fr. armure armor. ] 1. One who makes or repairs armor or arms. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Formerly, one who had care of the arms and armor of a knight, and who dressed him in armor. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who has the care of arms and armor, cleans or repairs them, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. an enlisted man responsible for the upkeep of small arms and machine guns etc.
Syn. -- armorer, artificer. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a manufacturer of firearms.
Syn. -- armorer [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who aspires. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who takes out a life assurance policy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who attires. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An augur. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Auto- + coherer. ] (Wireless Teleg.) A self-restoring coherer, as a microphonic detector. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. See Advoutrer. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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

2. A kind of dog used in badger baiting. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who banters or rallies. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who barters. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. 1. One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries. “Bearers of burdens.” 2 Chron. ii. 18. “The bearer of unhappy news.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically: One who assists in carrying a body to the grave; a pallbearer. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A palanquin carrier; also, a house servant. [ India ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A tree or plant yielding fruit; as, a good bearer. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Com.) One who holds a check, note, draft, or other order for the payment of money; as, pay to bearer. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Print.) A strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page; also, a type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who beleaguers. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) A Brazilian leaf hopper (Bocydium tintinnabuliferum), remarkable for the four bell-shaped appendages of its thorax. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One that besmears. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who bickers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who blatters; a babbler; a noisy, blustering boaster. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who is apt to blunder. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, blusters; a noisy swaggerer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A supporter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who dwells on a border, or at the extreme part or confines of a country, region, or tract of land; one who dwells near to a place or region. [ 1913 Webster ]

Borderers of the Caspian. Dyer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One that bores; an instrument for boring. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) (a) A marine, bivalve mollusk, of the genus Teredo and allies, which burrows in wood. See Teredo. (b) Any bivalve mollusk (Saxicava, Lithodomus, etc.) which bores into limestone and similar substances. (c) One of the larvæ of many species of insects, which penetrate trees, as the apple, peach, pine, etc. See Apple borer, under Apple. (d) The hagfish (Myxine). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who bothers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A brier. [ Archaic ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who embroiders. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A contrivance consisting of a slat of wood tied to the end of a thong or string, with which the slat is whirled so as to cause an intermittent roaring noise. It is used as a toy, and among some races in certain religious rites. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A burglar. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) An apple-green mineral, a hydrous arseniate of nickel, cobalt, and magnesia; -- so named from the Sierra Cabrera, Spain. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person who calenders cloth; a calender. [ 1913 Webster ]