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does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent. The doers of the law shall be justified. Rom. ii. 13.

A wrongdoer. Spenser.

One who overdoes.

One who underdoes; a shirk.

One who undoes anything; especially, one who ruins another.

One who does well; one who does good to another; a benefactor.

One who injures another, or who does wrong.

age by aid or countenance; -- used in a bad sense of persons and acts; as, to abet an ill-doer; to abet one in his wicked courses; to abet vice; to abet an insurrection. "The whole tribe abets the villany." South. Would not the fool abet the stealth, Who rashly thus exposed his wealth Gay.

One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.

A female actor or doer. [Obs.] Cockeram.

on for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer. He will avenge the blood of his servants. Deut. xxxii. 43. Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold. Milton. He had avenged himself on them by havoc such as England had n…

Showing skill or adroitness in the doer or former; as, a clever speech; a clever trick. Byron.

rse with, as an associate. An attempt to disfellowship an evil, but to fellowship the evildoer. Freewill Bapt. Quart.

The act of distraining; the taking of a personal chattel out of the possession of a wrongdoer, by way of pledge for redress of an injury, or for the performance of a duty, as for nonpayment of rent or taxes, or for injury done by cattle, etc.

red; as in assignee, donee, alienee, grantee, etc. It is correlative to -or, the agent or doer.

One who executes or performs; a doer; as, an executor of baseness. Shak.

One who does anything, good or bad; a doer; an agent. [Obs.] Br. Hacket.

A doer or actor; particularly, an evil doer; a scoundrel. [Obs.] Lo! faitour, there thy meed unto thee take. Spenser.

To tease; to irritate; to vex. Fret not thyself because of evil doers. Ps. xxxvii. 1.

A noun suffix denoting an agent, or doer, one who practices, a believer in; as, theorist, one who theorizes; socialist, one who holds to socialism; sensualist, one given to sensuality.