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One who keeps a diary.

A diary; a journal. Johnson.

coin or medal. It usually contains the date, place, engraver's name, etc., or other subsidiary matter. Fairholt.

A stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profists thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soi…

y of men for extinguished fires. -- Fire bucket. See under Bucket. -- Fire bug, an incendiary; one who, from malice or through mania, persistently sets fire to property; a pyromaniac. [U.S.] -- Fire clay. See under Clay. -- Fire company, a company of men managing an engine in extinguishing fires. -- Fire cross. See…

One who inflames factions, or causes contention and mischief; an incendiary. Bacon.

One who fires or sets fire to anything; an incendiary. [R.] R. Carew.

A term applied to certain nerve centers which govern or restrain subsidiary centers, from which motor impressions issue. McKendrick.

A diary; an account of daily transactions and events. Specifically:

The keeping of a journal or diary. [Obs.]

One who keeps a journal or diary. [Obs.] Mickle.

To enter or record in a journal or diary. Johnson.

oped. This production differs from the zoöloea stage of bacteria by not having the intermediary mucous substance.

A record of what passes in the night; a nightly journal; -- distinguished from diary. [R.] Addison.

One who makes use of petroleum for incendiary purposes.

mealed powder, -- used principally to ignite the priming in proving guns, and as an incendiary material in shells.

Acting from mercenary considerations; stipendiary. A. Seward.

in; one whose occupation is to buy and sell stocks. In England a jobber acts as an intermediary between brokers.

In a subsidiary manner; so as to assist.

tic, records of the feelings of the poet; as little tricked out for the public eye as his diary would have been. Macaulay.