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The philosophy of modern thinkers who follow Kant in his general theory of knowledge, esp. of a group of German philosophers including F. A. Lange, H. Cohen, Paul Natorp, and others.

An original thinker or writer; an originator. [R.] Men who are bad at copying, yet are good originals. C. G. Leland.

has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven. Shak. A poet is a maker, as the word signifies. Dryden. Poet laureate. See under Laureate.

A drinker. [R.] Southey.

One who dresses showily; a prinker. "A pranker or a dancer." Burton.

A large net, one edge of which is provided with sinkers, and the other with floats. It hangs vertically in the water, and when its ends are brought together or drawn ashore incloses the fish. Seine boat, a boat specially constructed to carry and pay out a seine.

ion of thought. The scheme of pantheistic omniscience so prevalent among the sequacious thinkers of the day. Sir W. Hamilton. Milton was not an extensive or discursive thinker, as Shakespeare was; for the motions of his mind were slow, solemn, and sequacious, like those of the planets. De Quincey.

Menidia notata) is very abundant. Called also silverside, sand smelt, friar, tailor, and tinker. Brook silversides (Zoöl.), a small fresh-water North American fish (Labadesthes sicculus) related to the marine silversides.

In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them.

A hard drinker. [Slang] South.

ight; honest; true; faithful; orthodox; -- said of persons; as, a sound lawyer; a sound thinker. Do not I know you a favorer Of this new seat Ye are nor sound. Shak.

A hard drinker; a soaker. [Slang]

A tinker. [Prov. Eng.]

ed or convex base, and could not be set down with any liquor in it, thus compelling the drinker to finish his measure.

Consisting in a heap; formed or being in a heap or hillock. Pinkerton.

One who, or that which, twinkles, or winks; a winker; an eye.

and holds that Christ was neither a divine nor a supernatural person; an infidel; a freethinker.

of a boat, into which water may run, and whence it is thrown out with a scoop. -- Well sinker, one who sinks or digs wells. -- Well sinking, the art or process of sinking or digging wells. -- Well staircase (Arch.), a staircase having a wellhole (see Wellhole (b)), as distinguished from one which occupies the whole…