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One who edits; esp., a person who prepares, superintends, revises, and corrects a book, magazine, or newspaper, etc., for publication.

Of or pertaining to an editor; written or sanctioned by an editor; as, editorial labors; editorial remarks. editorial content

In the manner or character of an editor or of an editorial article.

The office or charge of an editor; care and superintendence of a publication.

One who credits, believes, or trusts. The easy creditors of novelties. Daniel.

One who discredits.

An editor who inspects, and culls from, periodicals, or exchanges, for his own publication.

One employed to procure supplies, as for an army, a steamer, etc.; a purveyor; one who provides for another. Jer. Taylor.

An assistant editor, as of a periodical or journal.

A creditor for whom an appraisal is made. Sir W. Scott.

The application of payment of money by a debtor to his creditor, to one of several debts which are due from the former to the latter. Chitty.

called assets because sufficient to render the executor or administrator liable to the creditors and legatees, so far as such goods or estate may extend. Story. Blackstone.

esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors. To assign dower, to set out by metes and bounds the widow's share or portion in an estate. Kent.

r a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors.

a bankrupt to certain persons called assignees, in whom it is vested for the benefit of creditors. Assignment of dower, the setting out by metes and bounds of the widow's thirds or portion in the deceased husband's estate, and allotting it to her.

One who composes or writers a book; a composer, as distinguished from an editor, translator, or compiler. The chief glory every people arises from its authors. Johnson.

A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors. Blackstone.

nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to; as, to bilk a creditor. Thackeray.

goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; a statement of a creditor's claim, in gross or by items; as, a grocer's bill.

The Jesuit editors of the "Acta Sanctorum", or Lives of the Saints; -- named from John Bolland, who began the work.