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One who explores; one who examines closely; a searcher.

Serving or intended to explore; searching; examining; explorative. Sir H. Wotton.

One who implores. [Obs.] Mere implorators of unholy suits. Shak.

Supplicatory; entreating. [R.] Carlyle.

One of a number of persons who gets a company incorporated; one of the original members of a corporation.

experiments in any branch of natural science; as, a chemical, physical, or biological laboratory. Hence, by extension, a place where something is prepared, or some operation is performed; as, the liver is the laboratory of the bile.

One who meliorates.

gal right to delay meeting an obligation, esp. such a period granted, as to a bank, by a moratory law.

Of or pertaining to delay; esp., designating a law passed, as in a time of financial panic, to postpone or delay for a period the time at which notes, bills of exchange, and other obligations, shall mature or become due.

One who, or that which, perforates; esp., a cephalotome.

A restaurateur.

Restorative. [R.]

one's self; to perform one's part; as, the soldier acquitted himself well in battle; the orator acquitted himself very poorly.

4). This is the only thing distinct and sensible, that has been advocated. Burke. Eminent orators were engaged to advocate his cause. Mitford.

Ancient times; former ages; times long since past; as, Cicero was an eloquent orator of antiquity.

per name instead of an appellative, as when a wise man is called a Solomon, or an eminent orator a Cicero.

A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton's apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of "Paradise Lost."

particular character; as, a person makes his appearance as an historian, an artist, or an orator. Will he now retire, After appearance, and again prolong Our expectation Milton.

s, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first. Growth by apposition (Physiol.), a mode of growth characteristic of non vascular tissues, in which nutritive matter from the blood is transformed on the surface of…

rpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory.