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One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman.

One who hangs on, or sticks to, a person, place, or service; a dependent; one who adheres to others' society longer than he is wanted. Goldsmith.

One who changes or alters the form of anything.

One who exchanges; one who practices exchange. Matt.

A hanger-on.

One who uses abusive slang; a ranting partisan. [Colloq. or Humorous] W. Irving.

an appurtenance. [Obs.] Six French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns, as girdles, hangers, and so. Shak.

A Hindoo trader, merchant, cashier, or money changer. [Written also banyan.]

A money changer. [Obs.]

nd being smutted by them, were jocularly called the "black guard"; also, the servants and hangers-on of an army. [Obs.] A lousy slave, that . . . rode with the black guard in the duke's carriage, 'mongst spits and dripping pans. Webster (1612).

a floor timber, etc., where no sufficient bearing can be had; -- called also stirrup and hanger.

n who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; an idle hanger-on about innyards. [Eng.] Dickens.

A banker; a money changer or broker; one who deals in bills of exchange, or who is skilled in the science of exchange.

An exchanger or an exchange of benefices. [Cant]

A money changer. [Obs.] In the face of these guilty collybists. Bp. Hall.

epends; one who is sustained by another, or who relies on another for support of favor; a hanger-on; a retainer; as, a numerous train of dependents. A host of dependents on the court, suborned to play their part as witnesses. Hallam.

To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger. And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. Cen. xli. 55. The pains of famished Tantalus he'll feel. Dryden.

A dependent; a hanger-on; -- so called in contempt. B. Jonson.

A dependent and subservient hanger-on of a political patron. [Political Cant, U. S.] The army of hungry heelers who do their bidding. The Century.

different kinds of money; one who buys and sells bills of exchange; -- called also money changer. -- Money cowrie (Zoöl.), any one of several species of Cypræa (esp. C. moneta) formerly much used as money by savage tribes. See Cowrie. -- Money of account, a denomination of value used in keeping accounts, for which th…