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1. A person hired to murder or physically attack another; a hit man.

A head or leading man, especially of a village community.

An executioner who cuts off heads. Dryden.

The man at the helm; a steersman.

An attendant; a servant; a follower. Now chiefly used as a political cant term.

Henchman. [Obs.]

A woman that sells herbs.

The owner or keeper of a herd or of herds; one employed in tending a herd of cattle.

A woman who tends a herd. Sir W. Scott.

A Cossack headman or general. The title of chief hetman is now held by the heir to the throne of Russia.

Divination by observing the objects offered in sacrifice.

One who holds high-church principles.

The state of being a high-churchman. J. H. Newman.

One who robs on the public road; a highway robber.

A man who carries a hod; a mason's tender.

See Dodman. Bacon.

The old name, in Scotland, for the last day of the year, on which children go about singing, and receive a dole of bread or cakes; also, the entertainment given on that day to a visitor, or the gift given to an applicant. [Scot.]

The person blindfolded in the game called hoodman-blind. [Obs.] Shak.

An old term for blindman's buff. Shak.

A rider on horseback; one skilled in the management of horses; a mounted man.