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work (as doors, stairs, etc.) necessary for the finishing of buildings. "One Snug, the joiner." Shak.

The art, or trade, of a joiner; the work of a joiner. A piece of joinery . . . whimsically dovetailed. Burke.

A professional mourner who wails at a funeral. [Ireland]

One who teaches in a kindergarten.

A kitchen servant; a cook. Carlyle.

A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field of battle.

See Lanier. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The writer of a lampoon. "Libelers, lampooners, and pamphleteers." Tatler.

An owner of land.

A long-tailed falcon (Falco lanarius), of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa, resembling the American prairie falcon.

One who commits larceny.

A whiplash. [Obs.]

One who learns; a scholar.

One who, or that which, lessens. His wife . . . is the lessener of his pain, and the augmenter of his pleasure. J. Rogers (1839).

A swift hound.

. An army officer in rank next below a general and next above a major general.

A painter; an artist; esp.:

A dealer in linen; a linen draper. [Obs.]

One who lines, as, a liner of shoes.

One who listens; a hearkener.