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One who pleads; one who argues for or against; an advotate. So fair a pleader any cause may gain. Dryden.

One who prosecutes or sues another.

One who interpleads.

second pleading, or course of pleadings; also, the right of pleading again. Whenever a repleader is granted, the pleadings must begin de novo. Blackstone.

One who defends, vindicates, or espouses any cause by argument; a pleader; as, an advocate of free trade, an advocate of truth.

An advocate or professional pleader; one who counted for his client, that is, orally pleaded his cause. [Obs.] Burrill.

against each other, or go to trial between themselves, as the claimants in an in an interpleader. See Interpleader. [Written also enterplead.]

An advocate or pleader. Let him who works the client wrong Beware the patron's ire. Macaulay.

rth particular and new matter, distinguished from the general issue. Bouvier. -- Special pleader (Law), originally, a counsel who devoted himself to drawing special counts and pleas; in a wider sense, a lawyer who draws pleadings. -- Special pleading (Law), the allegation of special or new matter, as distingiushed fr…