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One who signs or subscribes his name; as, a memorial with a hundred signers.

One who assigns, appoints, allots, or apportions.

One who consigns. See Consignor.

One who designs, marks out, or plans; a contriver.

One who resigns.

A contriver, designer, or maker. The architects of their own happiness. Milton. A French woman is a perfect architect in dress. Coldsmith.

An assigner; a person who assigns or transfers an interest; as, the assignor of a debt or other chose in action.

A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document. [Eng.]

check, a written order on a banker or broker to pay money in his keeping belonging to the signer. -- Check book, a book containing blank forms for checks upon a bank. -- Check hook, a hook on the saddle of a harness, over which a checkrein is looped. -- Check list, a list or catalogue by which things may be verified…

on to whom goods or other things are consigned; a factor; -- correlative 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.

One who consigns something to another; -- opposed to consignee. [Written also consigner.]

A designer of medals. Macaulay.

A signer; one who signs or subscribes; as, a conference of signatories.