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One who sojourns. We are strangers before thee, and sojourners. 1. Chron. xxix. 15.

similar officer under the United States government, who is associated with the attorney-general; also, the chief law officer of some of the States.

A summoner; esp., one who summons to an ecclesiastical court. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

In the western United States, one who settles on government land before it is legally open to settlement in order to gain the prior claim that the law gives to the first settler when the land is opened to settlement; hence, any one who does a thing prematurely or anticipates another in acting in order to gain an unfair…

Oklahoma; -- a nickname.

One who obtrudes himself on another for bed and board. [Scot.] De Quncey.

t or native of the south, esp. of the Southern States of North America; opposed to Northerner.

One who, or that which, spans.

A mature female fish. The barbel, for the preservation or their seed, both the spawner and the milter, cover their spawn with sand. Walton.

A spider. "Long-legged spinners." Shak.

of spiders, by means of which they spin their webs. Most spiders have three pairs of spinnerets, but some have only two pairs. The ordinary silk line of the spider is composed of numerous smaller lines jointed after issuing from the spinnerets.

One of the numerous small spinning tubes on the spinnerets of spiders.

One who spurns.

A workman who stains; as, a stainer of wood.

In France, before the Revolution, the assembly of the three orders of the kingdom, namely, the clergy, the nobility, and the third estate, or commonalty.

A bookseller or publisher; -- formerly so called from his occupying a stand, or station, in the market place or elsewhere. [Obs.] Dryden.

The articles usually sold by stationers, as paper, pens, ink, quills, blank books, etc.

A director. [Obs. & R.] Dr. R. Clerke.

One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.

One who stones; one who makes an assault with stones.