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One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof corn; a machine planter.

The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.

A careless person; a trifler. [R.]

A bag or case, usually of leather, for carrying wearing apparel, etc., on journeys. Thackeray.

Being or indicating the fourth syllable from the end of a word, or that before the antepenult.

A noisy talker; a raving declaimer.

The practice or tenets of the Ranters.

Sweeping; grazing; -- applied to a style of fortification in which the command of the works over each other, and over the country, is kept very low, in order that the shot may more effectually sweep or graze the ground before them. H. L. Scott.

One who recants.

One of the seven confederated tribes of Indians belonging to the Sioux, or Dakotas.

See Saunter.

A maidservant. [Obs.] Wyclif.

An underchanter; a precentor's deputy in a cathedral; a succentor.

One who supplants.

A kind of Scotch cap of wool, worsted, or the like, having a round, flattish top much wider than the band which fits the head, and usually having a tassel in the center.

A rapid and delirious sort of Neapolitan dance in 6-8 time, which moves in whirling triplets; -- so called from a popular notion of its being a remedy against the poisonous bite of the tarantula. Some derive its name from Taranto in Apulia.

One who transplants; also, a machine for transplanting trees.

One who trants; a peddler; a carrier. [Written also traunter.] [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

Same as Rouge et noir, under Rouge.

One of two processes near the head of the femur, the outer being called the great trochanter, and the inner the small trochanter.