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Undertapster. [Obs.]

A person who does not think, or does not think wisely.

A horse's blinder; a blinker.

e front or before others, as regards progress or ideas; as, advanced opinions, advanced thinkers.

One of a sect of freethinkers among the Mohammedans.

An antiquary; a collector of antiques. [R.] Pinkerton.

The higher order of clergy in Russia, including metropolitans, archbishops, and bishops. Pinkerton.

'Alembert and Diderot. In Germany, Lessing, Mendelssohn, and Herder were representative thinkers, while the political doctrines of the leaders of the American Revolution and the speculations of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine represented the movement in America.

A great drinker; a tippler. [Written also bibbler and bibbeler.]

f the leather screens on a bridle, to hinder a horse from seeing objects at the side; a blinker.

A clinker; a partially vitrified brick.

A traveling tinker; also a tramp or sturdy beggar. [Prov. Eng.]

Having the planks meet flush at the seams, instead of lapping as in a clinker-built vessel.

order or class of persons in society who chiefly hold intercourse among themselves. The tinkers then formed an hereditary caste. Macaulay. To lose caste, to be degraded from the caste to which one has belonged; to lose social position or consideration.

s changed to a flush joint, by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats.

See Clinker-built.

Logically consistent; -- applied to persons; as, a coherent thinker. Watts.

One who considers; a man of reflection; a thinker. Milton.

A portable forge, used by tinkers, etc.

One who believes in the existence of a God, but denies revealed religion; a freethinker.