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One who engaged in the contests of the pancratium.

The commander of a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and harassing an enemy.

One who managed a petard.

One engaged in the scientific measurement of light.

der; to spoil; to lay waste; as, to pillage the camp of an enemy. Mummius . . . took, pillaged, and burnt their city. Arbuthnot.

Anything resembling a pinnacle; a lofty peak; a pointed summit. Three silent pinnacles of aged snow. Tennyson. The slippery tops of human state, The gilded pinnacles of fate. Cowley.

aris), which is parasitic chiefly in the rectum of man. It is most common in children and aged persons.

A dramatic composition; a comedy or tragedy; a composition in which characters are represented by dialogue and action. A play ought to be a just image of human nature. Dryden.

Engaged in, or addicted to, polemics, or to controversy; disputations; as, a polemic writer. South.

itical party; -- used in a depreciatory sense; one addicted or attached to politics as managed by parties (see Politics, 2); a schemer; an intriguer; as, a mere politician. Like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not. Shak. The politician . . . ready to do anything that he apprehends for his advantag…

One who is engaged in the actual use or exercise of any art or profession, particularly that of law or medicine. Crabbe.

engage by previous contract; to bind or attach previously; to preoccupy. But he was preëngaged by former ties. Dryden.

To serve as prelude to; to precede as introductory. [Music] preluding some great tragedy. Longfellow

That which is presaged, or foretold. [R.] "Ominous presagement before his end. " Sir H. Wotton.

, to prick up the ears, to listen sharply; to have the attention and interest strongly engaged. "The courser . . . pricks up his ears." Dryden.

Not invested with, or engaged in, public office or employment; as, a private citizen; private life. Shak. A private person may arrest a felon. Blackstone.

The collective body of persons engaged in a calling; as, the profession distrust him.

Engaged in by professionals; as, a professional race; -- opposed to amateur.

aging; the act of exalting in rank or honor; also, the condition of being advanced, encouraged, or exalted in honor; preferment. Milton. Promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. Ps. lxxv. 6.

Accustomed to prowl, or engaged in roving stealthily, as for prey. "A prowling wolf." Milton. -- Prowl"ing*ly, adv.