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One who sends goods from one place to another not in the same city or town, esp. one who sends goods by water.

One who reships.

hree, or four copies of the bill; one of which he keeps in possession, one is kept by the shipper, and one is sent to the consignee of the goods. -- Bill of mortality, an official statement of the number of deaths in a place or district within a given time; also, a district required to be covered by such statement; as…

tive to consignor. Consigner and consignee are used by merchants to express generally the shipper of merchandise, and the person to whom it is addressed, by bill of lading or otherwise. De Colange.

A coal broker who conducts the sales between the owner of a coal pit and the shipper. [Eng.] Simmonds.

ea. In the case of free goods the shipping notes are the receiving note, addressed by the shipper to the chief officer of the vessel, requesting him to receive on board specified goods, and a receipt for the mate to sign, on receiving whose signature it is called the mate's receipt, and is surrendered by the shipper fo…

ships; one who pays divine honors to any being or thing; one who adores. [Written also worshipper.]