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An implement for braying and spreading ink in hand printing.

One whose pccupation is to build with bricks. Bricklayer's itch. See under Itch.

One who buys; a purchaser.

A monk of the Greek Church; a cenobite, anchoret, or recluse of the rule of St. Basil, especially, one on or near Mt. Athos.

A small downy-leaved tree (Anona Cherimolia), with fragrant flowers. It is a native of Peru.

A very fast, unarmored, lightly armed vessel designed to capture or destroy merchant vessels of an enemy. Not being intended to fight, they may be improvised from fast passenger steamers.

A species of Dorstenia (D. Contrayerva), a South American plant, the aromatic root of which is sometimes used in medicine as a gentle stimulant and tonic.

One who, or that which, conveys or carries, transmits or transfers.

See Copier.

See Crare. [Obs.]

The female of the hawk; a falcon-gentil.

A causer of decay. [R.]

One who decoys another.

One who pays off expenses.

One who delays; one who lingers.

One who destroys, ruins, kills, or desolates.

One who disobeys.

One who, or that which, displays.

See Drier. Sir W. Temple.

One whose occupation is to dye cloth and the like. Dyer's broom, Dyer's rocket, Dyer's weed. See Dyer's broom, under Broom.