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One who deals in affairs of love.[Obs.] Shak.

One who depends on merit for salvation. [Obs.] Milner.

One who deals in news; one who is active in hearing and telling news.

One who lays informations, and encourages petty lawsuits. [Obs.] Bacon.

A stickler for rules; a slave of rules [R.] Hare.

One who promises or distributes public offices and their emoluments as the price of services to a party or its leaders.

A fortune teller; an astrologer; -- used in contempt. B. Jonson.

One versed in politics, or one who dabbles in state affairs.

A writer of verses; especially, a writer of commonplace poetry; a poetaster; a rhymer; -- used humorously or in contempt.

One who makes ar a trade or business; a mercenary. [R.] Spenser.

A whoremaster; a lecher; a man who frequents the society of whores.

A wood seller. [Obs.]

A civilian; a carpetmonger. [Obs.]

Those engaged in any trade, taken collectively; a guild; as, the craft of ironmongers. The control of trade passed from the merchant guilds to the new craft guilds. J. R. Green.

entrails of; to disembowel; to eviscerate; as, exenterated fishes. [R.] Exenterated rule-mongers and eviscerated logicians. Hare.

and protection; a business fraternity or corporation; as, the Stationers' Guild; the Ironmongers' Guild. They were originally licensed by the government, and endowed with special privileges and authority.

Ware made of metal, as cutlery, kitchen utensils, and the like; ironmongery.

A whoremonger. [Obs.] Chaucer.

or legend abounding in miracles. [Obs.] When said was all this miracle. Chaucer. Miracle monger, an impostor who pretends to work miracles. -- Miracle play, one of the old dramatic entertainments founded on legends of saints and martyrs or (see 2d Mystery, 2) on events related in the Bible.

ut. See Eelpout. -- Mutton fist, a big brawny fist or hand. [Colloq.] Dryden. -- Mutton monger, a pimp [Low & Obs.] Chapman. -- To return to one's muttons. Etym: [A translation of a phrase from a farce by De Brueys, revenons à nos moutons let us return to our sheep.] To return to one's topic, subject of discussion,…