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An assigner; a person who assigns or transfers an interest; as, the assignor of a debt or other chose in action.

A digesting furnace, formerly used by alchemists. It was so constructed as to maintain uniform and durable heat. Chambers.

See Avener. [Obs.]

One who makes a bargain, or contracts with another; esp., one who sells, or contracts to sell, property to another. Blackstone.

An inordinate secretion and discharge of mucus.

Melodious; musical. "Birds that are most canorous." Sir T. Browne. A long, lound, and canorous peal of laughter. De Quincey.

The quality of being musical. He chooses his language for its rich canorousness. Lowell.

Possessing the qualities of a prism, obliquely inclined to a rhombic base; monoclinic.

One who consigns something to another; -- opposed to consignee. [Written also consigner.]

Counter tenor; contralto.

One of the middle parts in music, between the tenor and the treble; high tenor. Counter-tenor clef (Mus.), the C clef when placed on the third line; -- also called alto clef.

A voracious appetite, like that of a starved dog.

See Dinornis.

tment; conduct. [Obs.] God commits the managing so great a trust . . . wholly to the demeanor of every grown man. Milton.

e birds of gigantic size, which formerly inhabited New Zealand. See Moa. [Written also Deinornis.]

Lack of honor; disgrace; ignominy; shame; reproach. It was not meet for us to see the king's dishonor. Ezra iv. 14. His honor rooted in dishonor stood. Tennyson.

Wanting in honor; not honorable; bringing or deserving dishonor; staining the character, and lessening the reputation; shameful; disgraceful; base.

Bringing dishonor on; tending to disgrace; lessening reputation. Holmes.

One who dishonors or disgraces; one who treats another indignity. Milton.

One who distrains; the party distraining goods or chattels. Blackstone.