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One who is engaged in effecting a revolution; a revolutionist. Smollett.

One engaged in effecting a change of government; a favorer of revolution. Burke.

the rigs of Michaelmas were yet well composed. Burke. To run a rig, to play a trick; to engage in a frolic; to do something strange and unbecoming. He little dreamt when he set out Of running such a rig. Cowper.

Opprobriously, a leader of a body of men engaged in the violation of law or in an illegal enterprise, as rioters, mutineers, or the like. The ringleaders were apprehended, tried, fined, and imprisoned. Macaulay.

To engage in riot; to act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of luxury, feasting, or the like; to revel; to run riot; to go to excess. Now he exact of all, wastes in delight, Riots in pleasure, and neglects the law. Daniel. No pulse that riots, and no blood that glows. Pope.

One who engages in a riot. See Riot, n., 3.

Involving, or engaging in, riot; wanton; unrestrained; luxurious. The younger son . . . took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. Luke xv. 13.

One who engages in rows, or noisy quarrels; a ruffianly fellow. M. Arnold.

Inclined to, or engaged in, rumination or meditation.

A nickname for a workman who engages for lower wages than are fixed by the trades unions; also, for one who takes the place of a workman on a strike. [Cant]

One engaged in the pursuits of learning; a learned person; one versed in many branches, of knowledge; a person of high literary or scientific attainments; a savant. Shak. Locke.

An engagement between ships at sea; a naval battle.

A mariner or a vessel engaged in the business of capturing seals.

An officer of the customs whose business it is to search ships, merchandise, luggage, etc.

or from, rarely with of; as, to secure a creditor against loss; to secure a debt by a mortgage. It secures its possessor of eternal happiness. T. Dick.

One who becomes surety for another, or engages himself for the performance of another's obligation.

A group of students engaged, under the guidance of an instructor, in original research in a particular line of study, and in the exposition of the results by theses, lectures, etc.; -- called also seminary.

To be disengaged from the ear or husk; as, wheat or rye shells in reaping.

To engage or secure for service on board of a ship; as, to ship seamen.

The act or process of shipping; as, he was engaged in the shipment of coal for London; an active shipment of wheat from the West.