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See Ocher.

One who negotiates the discount of bills.

One who enters accounts or names, etc., in a book; a bookkeeper.

as a middleman or negotiator, between other persons, for a compensation commonly called brokerage. He takes no possession, as broker, of the subject matter of the negotiation. He generally contracts in the names of those who employ him, and not in his own. Story.

The business or employment of a broker. Burke.

Mean; servile. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

The business of a broker. [Obs.] And with extorting, cozening, forfeiting, And tricks belonging unto brokery. Marlowe.

One who, or that which, chokes.

The cocoanut.

The art or process of preparing food for the table, by dressing, compounding, and the application of heat.

A cultivator of saffron; a dealer in saffron. [Obs.] Holinshed.

An American sole (Achirus lineatus, or A. achirus), related to the European sole, but of no market value.

Scorn; derision; abusive talk. [Obs.] -- Ho"ker*ly, adv. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One who, or that which, hooks.

One who makes jokes or jests.

One who looks. Looker-on, a spectator; one that looks on, but has no agency or part in an affair. Did not this fatal war affront thy coast, Yet sattest thou an idle looker-on Fairfax.

A substance, resembling keratin, present in nerve tissue, as in the sheath of the axis cylinder of medullated nerve fibers. Like keratin it resists the action of most chemical agents, and by decomposition with sulphuric acid yields leucin and tyrosin.

A looker-on.

One who overlooks.

One who makes a business of lending money on the security of personal property pledged or deposited in his keeping.