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Any of the players who meet in the final round of a tournament in which the losers in any round do not play again.

A financier.

One who exlpains geological phenomena by the action of streams. [R.]

tward forms of worship, without possessing the life and spirit of religion. As far a formalist from wisdom sits, In judging eyes, as libertines from wits. Young.

One who is versed in the science of fossils; a paleontologist. Joseph Black.

A ropewalker or ropedancer.

One who attributes the phenomena of the drift, in geology, to glaciers.

Glimmer; mica.

mild, subdued, and fitful luster; to emit a soft, scintillating light; to gleam; as, the glistening stars.

To be bright; to sparkle; to be brilliant; to shine; to glisten; to glitter. All that glisters is not gold. Shak.

In a glistering manner.

A glutton. [Obs.]

One skilled in the knowledge of plants; a collector of, or dealer in, herbs, especially medicinal herbs.

One who prepares homilies; one who preaches to a congregation.

One who favors the humoral pathology or believes in humoralism.

One who uses hyperboles.

One who serves images; -- opposed to an iconoclast. Schaff- Herzog Encyc.

A student, or lover of the study, of iconography.

One who idealizes; one who forms picturesque fancies; one given to romantic expectations.

Of or pertaining to idealists or their theories.