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One who teaches or practices gymnastic exercises; the manager of a gymnasium; an athlete.

To manage with skill and economy, as a housewife or other female manager; to economize. Conferred those moneys on the nuns, which since they have well housewived. Fuller.

The projector, manager, or conductor, of an opera or concert company.

he collective body of those who manage or direct any enterprise or interest; the board of managers.

orders for blankets are large. In those days were pit orders -- beshrew the uncomfortable manager who abolished them. Lamb.

in that demand. Robertson. This bank is thought the greatest load on the Genoese, and the managers of it have been represented as a second kind of senate. Addison.

Hence: A body of assistants serving to carry into effect the plans of a superintendant or manager; as, the staff of a newspaper. Jacob's staff (Surv.), a single straight rod or staff, pointed and iron-shod at the bottom, for penetrating the ground, and having a socket joint at the top, used, instead of a tripod, for su…

Foul subornation is predominant. Shak. The sort of chicanery attending the subornation of managers in the Leibnitz controversy. De Quinsey.

One versed in tactics; hence, a skillful maneuverer; an adroit manager.

A manager; an actual occupant. [Ireland. Obs.] "The welder . . . who . . . lives miserably." Swift.

One who wields or employs; a manager; a controller. A wielder of the great arm of the war. Milton.