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Nearer. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To sell by auction; to auction. Estates . . . advertised and auctioneered away. Cowper.

To act the part of a buccaneer; to live as a piratical adventurer or sea robber.

Like a buccaneer; piratical.

A man who manages, or fires, cannon.

A carbineer.

The leader or driver of the camels in caravan.

A soldier armed with a carbine.

uster; to swell with conscious superiority or haughtiness; -- often with over; as, to domineer over dependents. Go to the feast, revel and domineer. Shak. His wishes tend abroad to roam, And hers to domineer at home. Prior.

Ruling arrogantly; overbearing. A violent, brutal, domineering old reprobate. Blackw. Mag.

to use arts for securing the election of a candidate. A master of the whole art of electioneering. Macaulay.

One who electioneers.

A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering. See under Engineering, n.

In the United States army, the Corps of Engineers, a corps of officers and enlisted men consisting of one band and three battalions of engineers commanded by a brigadier general, whose title is Chief of Engineers. It has charge of the construction of fortifications for land and seacoast defense, the improvement of rive…

tter are made useful to man in structures and machines; the occupation and work of an engineer.

To veneer.

An harpooner. Grabb.

An Indiaman.

A rude, fierce person. [Obs.] No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer. Milton.

A dish for keeping muffins hot.