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One who deprives of life; one who, or that which, kills.

A gallant who captivates the hearts of women. "A renowned dandy and lady-killer." Blackw. Mag.

Any of several arthropods erroneously supposed to kill live stock, in the southern United States, by stinging or by being swallowed; as:

The northern butcher bird.

A genus of large and voracious two-winged flies, including the bee killer and robber fly.

e up the cells; -- called also propolis. -- Bee hawk (Zoöl.), the honey buzzard. -- Bee killer (Zoöl.), a large two-winged fly of the family Asilidæ (esp. Trupanea apivora) which feeds upon the honeybee. See Robber fly. -- Bee louse (Zoöl.), a minute, wingless, dipterous insect (Braula cæca) parasitic on hive bees.…

exico and eastward to Texas; -- called also road runner, ground cuckoo, churea, and snake killerit is the state bird of New Mexico.

ack-out-of-office, one who has been in office and is turned out. Shak. -- Jack the Giant Killer, the hero of a well-known nursery story. -- Jack-with-a-lantern, Jack-o'-lantern. (a) An ignis fatuus; a will-o'-the-wisp. "[Newspaper speculations] supplying so many more jack-o'-lanterns to the future historian." Lowell.…

A killer of men; a manslayer. [Obs.] Carew.

The killer; the man appointed to kill the bull in bullfights.

A killer; as, Jack the Giant Queller. [Obs.] Wyclif (Mark vi. 27).

raspberry growing from Alaska to California, the fruit of the Rubus Nutkanus. -- Salmon killer (Zoöl.), a stickleback (Gasterosteus cataphractus) of Western North America and Northern Asia. -- Salmon ladder, salmon stair. See Fish ladder, under Fish. -- Salmon peel, a young salmon. -- Salmon pipe, a certain device…

One who slays; a killer; a murderer; a destrroyer of life.

s and adjacent countries are large species of Mygale. [Written also tarentula.] Tarantula killer, a very large wasp (Pompilus formosus), which captures the Texan tarantula (Mygale Hentzii) and places it in its nest as food for its young, after paralyzing it by a sting.

own thrush. Sage thrasher. (Zoöl.) See under Sage. -- Thrasher whale (Zoöl.), the common killer of the Atlantic.

A medicine which destroys intestinal worms; a worm killer. Pereira.