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One who communicates information, etc., by letter or telegram to a newspaper or periodical.

engaged in the trial or management of a cause in court; also, collectively, the legal advocates united in the management of a case; as, the defendant has able counsel. The King found his counsel as refractory as his judges. Macaulay.

One who advocates the practice of cremation.

That change in a disease which indicates whether the result is to be recovery or death; sometimes, also, a striking change of symptoms attended by an outward manifestation, as by an eruption or sweat. Till some safe crisis authorize their skill. Dryden.

f an incorporation or barristers; specifically, the president of the incorporation of advocates in Edinburgh. -- Dean of guild, a magistrate of Scotch burghs, formerly, and still, in some burghs, chosen by the Guildry, whose duty is to superintend the erection of new buildings and see that they conform to the law. --…

One who dedicates; more especially, one who inscribes a book to the favor of a patron, or to one whom he desires to compliment.

One who advocates or encourages defection.

One who defends; one who maintains, supports, protects, or vindicates; a champion; an advocate; a vindicator. Provinces . . . left without their ancient and puissant defenders. Motley.

A choice dainty; a delicacy. [R.] With abstinence all delicates he sees. Dryden.

One who relates or communicates.

One who deprecates.

One who, or that which, desiccates.

One who dijudicates. [R.] Wood.

A genus of freeswimming oceanic tunicates, allied to Salpa, and having alternate generations.

One who domesticates.

Having two heads; bicipital. Double-headed rail (Railroad), a rail whose flanges are duplicates, so that when one is worn the other may be turned uppermost.

he weight and deaden shocks. [Eng.] Weale. -- Driving wheel (Mach.), a wheel that communicates motion; one of the large wheels of a locomotive to which the connecting rods of the engine are attached; -- called also, simply, driver. See Illust. of Locomotive.

A sham package in a shop, or one which does not contain what its exterior indicates.

One who is versed in the theories of, or who advocates and promotes, education.

One who educates; a teacher.