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One who advocates national unity and independence; one of a party favoring Irish independence.

One who advocates adheres to new laws; esp. one who holds or believes that the gospel is a new law.

One who advocates or practices nephalism.

One who advocates the doctrine of nihilism; one who believes or teaches that nothing can be known, or asserted to exist.

made to constituted authority, even when unjustly or oppressively exercised; one who advocates or practices absolute submission; also, one who holds that violence should never be resisted by force.

The writing which communicates information; an advertisement, or citation, etc.

The term in a fraction which indicates the number of fractional units that are taken.

That which forms and educates; as, commerce is the nursery of seamen.

One who advocates or practices opportunism. [Recent]

One who communicates a divine command; an angel; a prophet. God hath now sent his living oracle Into the world to teach his final will. Milton.

a patient's voice, heard on applying the ear to the chest in auscultation. It usually indicates some morbid change in the lungs or pleural cavity.

One who advocates or practices infant baptism. [Written also pædobaptist.]

One who advocates the doctrine of pessimism; -- opposed to Ant: optimist.

One who advocates a phonetic spelling.

Zoöl.) (a) A bird found near the Caribbee Islands; - - so called because its presence indicates to mariners their approach to these islands. Crabb. (b) The black-bellied plover. [Local, U.S.] -- Pilot boat, a strong, fast-sailing boat used to carry and receive pilots as they board and leave vessels. -- Pilot bread, sh…

o the piston rod. -- Piston rod, a rod by which a piston is moved, or by which it communicates motion. -- Piston valve (Steam Eng.), a slide valve, consisting of a piston, or connected pistons, working in a cylindrical case which is provided with ports that are traversed by the valve.

a heavy sea; the field pitches toward the east. Pitch and pay, an old aphorism which inculcates ready-money payment, or payment on delivery of goods. Shak.

That which arrests attention, or indicates qualities or character; a salient feature; a characteristic; a peculiarity; hence, a particular; an item; a detail; as, the good or bad points of a man, a horse, a book, a story, etc. He told him, point for point, in short and plain. Chaucer. In point of religion and in point…

One who advocates polyarchy; -- opposed to monarchist. Cudworth.

One who practices or advocates polygyny. H. Spenser.