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A greedy, voracious eater; a gormand; a glutton.

A greedy or ravenous eater; a glutton. See Gormand. That great gourmand, fat Apicius B. Jonson.

One whose professional habit is a gown, as a divine or lawyer, and particularly a member of an English university; hence, a civilian, in distinction from a soldier.

Having characteristics that are partly Greek and partly Roman; as, Greco-Roman architecture.

The man who manipulates a grip.

A male attendant of a bridegroom at his wedding; -- the correlative of bridesmaid.

One who guards; a guard.

A kind of divination performed by drawing a ring or circle, and walking in or around it. Brande & C.

The driver of a hack or carriage for public hire.

A man who lets horses and carriages for hire.

Same as Hemadynamometer.

See Alomancy.

A hammerer; a forgeman.

A handicraftsman.

A man skilled or employed in handcraft. Bacon.

One who hangs another; esp., one who makes a business of hanging; a public executioner; -- sometimes used as a term of reproach, without reference to office. Shak.

The office or character of a hangman.

See Hoonoomaun.

One who makes, or deals in, hardware.

A man engaged in harvesting. Shak.