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One who, or that which, spins one skilled in spinning; a spinning machine.

The practice of sportsmen; skill in field sports.

ne who has long acted on the stage of life; a practitioner; a person of experience, or of skill derived from long experience. "You will find most of the old stagers still stationary there." Sir W. Scott.

A statesman; a politician; one skilled in government. [Obs.] Statists indeed, And lovers of their country. Milton.

One skilled in steganography; a cryptographer.

One who is skilled in stenography; a writer of shorthand.

ffix denoting the agent (originally a woman), especially a person who does something with skill or as an occupation; as in spinster (originally, a woman who spins), songster, baxter (= bakester), youngster.

One skilled in the use or construction of stereoscopes.

One skilled in the use of the stethoscope.

One skilled in strategy, or the science of directing great military movements.

To play on an instrument of music, or as on an instrument, in an unskillful or noisy way; to thrum; as, to strum a piano.

. xxxvi. 7. Ambitions should be made of sterner stuff. Shak. The workman on his stuff his skill doth show, And yet the stuff gives not the man his skill. Sir J. Davies.

Resulting from, or evincing, stupidity; formed without skill or genius; dull; heavy; -- said of things. Observe what loads of stupid rhymes Oppress us in corrupted times. Swift.

One skilled in subjective philosophy; a subjectivist.

Cunning; skill; craft. [Obs.] To learn a lewd man this subtility. Chaucer.

on the ground, but without touching them. -- Sword fight, fencing; a combat or trial of skill with swords; swordplay. -- Sword grass. (Bot.) See Gladen. -- Sword knot, a ribbon tied to the hilt of a sword. -- Sword law, government by the sword, or by force; violence. Milton. -- Sword lily. (Bot.) See Gladiolus.…

A fencer; a gladiator; one who exhibits his skill in the use of the sword.

One skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the science of fencing; a fencer.

The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword. Cowper.

One who forms or divides words into syllables, or is skilled in doing this.