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One guilty of mutiny.

e who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow; as, pioneers of civilization; pioneers of reform.

In Utah, a legal holiday, July 24, commemorated the arrival, in 1847, of Brigham Young and his followers at the present site of Salt Lake City.

A scrutinizer; specifically, an examiner of votes, as at an election.

A sermonizer. B. Jonson.

To utter with a grimace or contemptuous expression; to utter with a sneer; to say sneeringly; as, to sneer fulsome lies at a person. Congreve. "A ship of fools," he sneered. Tennyson.

One who sneers.

Given to sneering. [Obs.]

In a sneering manner.

The chief harpooner, who also directs in cutting up the speck, or blubber; -- so called among whalers.

Same as Specsioneer.

A helmsman. [R.]

A person armed with a truncheon. [Written also truncheoner.]

late with a thin layer of wood or other material for outer finish or decoration; as, to veneer a piece of furniture with mahogany. Used also figuratively. As a rogue in grain Veneered with sanctimonious theory. Tennyson.

The act or art of one who veneers.

Earnestly desirous; as, anxious to please. He sneers alike at those who are anxious to preserve and at those who are eager for reform. Macaulay.

, cavalry, and artillery, together with more or less numerous other branches, such as engineers, medical corps, etc., besides the staff organizations such as those of the pay and subsistence departments.

Of or pertaining to an auction or an auctioneer. [R.] With auctionary hammer in thy hand. Dryden.

An outlaw; a brigand. No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer. Milton.

is forced through the molten metal; -- so called from Sir Henry Bessemer, an English engineer, the inventor of the process.