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One who seeks; a seeker. [Obs.]

One who requests; a petitioner.

A rhymer; a maker of poor poetry. Bp. Hall. Byron.

A period of six months; especially, a term in a college or uneversity which divides the year into two terms.

o confiscate. Formerly the goods of a defendant in chancery were, in the last resort, sequestered and detained to enforce the decrees of the court. And now the profits of a benefice are sequestered to pay the debts of ecclesiastics. Blackstone.

Retired; secluded. "Sequestered scenes." Cowper. Along the cool, sequestered vale of life. Gray.

A Roman coin or denomination of money, in value the fourth part of a denarius, and originally containing two asses and a half, afterward four asses, -- equal to about two pence sterling, or four cents.

A storm, gale, or strong wind from the southwest.

To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.

Of or pertaining to the southwest; southwesterly; as, to sail a southwestern course.

One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.

A female tapster. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An instrument for telegraphically reproducing a photograph. -- Tel`e*ste`re*og"ra*phy (#), n.

A stereoscope adapted to view distant natural objects or landscapes; a telescopic stereoscope.

A headpiece; a helmet. [Obs.] The shields bright, testers, and trappures. Chaucer.

A sixpence; a tester. [Obs.]

A toll or tribute of a sextary of ale, paid to the lords of some manors by their tenants, for liberty to brew and sell ale. Cowell.

A female dancer. [Obs.] Chaucer.

; a story-teller; a gossip. [Poetic.] Step by step we rose to greatness; through the tonguesters we may fall. Tennyson.

A term or period of three months.