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One who buys and sells; a merchant; a buyer or a seller. [Obs.] The word of life is a quick commodity, and ought not, as a drug to be obtruded on those chapmen who are unwilling to buy it. T. Fuller.

Divination by written paper or by cards.

A woman hired for odd work or for single days.

A piece used in the game of chess.

A south American carrion buzzard (Milvago chimango). See Caracara.

A native of China; a Chinese.

One who practices chiromancy. Dryden.

The art or practice of foretelling events, or of telling the fortunes or the disposition of persons by inspecting the hand; palmistry.

A chiromancer.

Of or pertaining to chiromancy.

An ecclesiastic or clergyman.

Pertaining to, or becoming, a churchman. Milman.

The state or quality of being a churchman; attachment to the church.

One who claims; one who asserts a right or title; a claimer.

Crying earnestly, beseeching clamorousky. "Clamant children." Thomson.

One belonging to the same clan with another.

A candidate for graduation in arts who is placed in an honor class, as opposed to a passman, who is not classified. [Oxford, Eng.]

See Kleptomania.

An ordained minister; a man regularly authorized to peach the gospel, and administer its ordinances; in England usually restricted to a minister of the Established Church.

A divination by throwing dice or casting lots.