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One who walks about in a large retail store as an overseer and director. [U.S.]

One who, or that which, directs another in his conduct or course of lifo; a director; a regulator. He will be our guide, even unto death. Ps. xlviii. 14.

A guide; a director. Shak.

One at the place of direction or control; a steersman; hence, a guide; a director. The helms o' the State, who care for you like fathers. Shak.

Presented, instituted, and inducted into a rectory, and in full possession. -- n.

A French fop or dandy of the time of the Directory; hence, any fop.

A presbyter appointed by the bishop to institute a rector or assistant minister over a parish church.

A rector of a German university.

One who manages; a conductor or director; as, the manager of a theater. A skillful manager of the rabble. South.

A director; one who gives a mandate or order. Ayliffe.

Containing a command; preceptive; directory.

d of a household. (f) The male head of a school or college. (g) A male teacher. (h) The director of a number of persons performing a ceremony or sharing a feast. (i) The owner of a docile brute, -- especially a dog or horse. (j) The controller of a familiar spirit or other supernatural being.

ed as of great authority; as, a literary oracle. "Oracles of mode." Tennyson. The country rectors . . . thought him an oracle on points of learning. Macaulay.

One who ordains or establishes; a director. [R.] T. Adams.

person who represents a parish in its ecclesiastical and corporate capacities; hence, the rector or incumbent of a parochial church, who has full possession of all the rights thereof, with the cure of souls.

A staff corps in the United States navy, consisting of pay directors, pay inspectors, paymasters, passed assistant paymasters, and assistant paymasters, having relative rank from captain to ensign, respectively.

basal part produced around the stem; -- said of leaves which the stem apparently passes directory through.

Figuratively: A guide; a director of another through a difficult or unknown course.

A guide or director.

One of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or more rectors or vicars.