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A stationary part in or about which another part (the rotor) revolves, esp. when both are large; as,

See Agister.

One who, or that which, devastates. Emerson.

Pertaining to gestation or pregnancy.

Pertaining to, or subservient to, the sense of taste; as, the gustatory nerve which supplies the front of the tongue.

One who makes protestation; a protester.

A man who makes and leaves a will, or testament, at death.

management and disposal, under legal authority, of the estate of an intestate, or of a testator having no competent executor.

A man who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority.

ration; alterable; as, the dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator.

Given by same testator to the same legatee; -- said of a legacy. Bouvier. Wharton.

Derogatory clause in a testament (Law), a sentence of secret character inserted by the testator alone, of which he reserves the knowledge to himself, with a condition that no will he may make thereafter shall be valid, unless this clause is inserted word for word; -- a precaution to guard against later wills extorted…

One who devises, or gives real estate by will; a testator; -- correlative to devisee.

ning to Publius Falcidius, a Roman tribune. Falcidian law (Civil Law), a law by which a testator was obliged to leave at least a fourth of his estate to the heir. Burrill.

A small dipterous fly of the genus Oscinis, esp. O. vastator, injurious to grain in Europe, and O. Trifole, injurious to clover in America.

ype of alternating-current motor comprising two wound members, one stationary, called the stator, and the other rotating, called the rotor, these two members corresponding to a certain extent to the field and armature of a direct-current motor.

take effect in consequence of the death of the devisee, or legatee, before that of the testator, or for ether cause. Wharton (Law Dict.).

A testator; one who bequeaths a legacy. Dryden.

The omission by a testator of some one of his heirs who is entitled to a portion. Bouvier.

rson libeled. -- Publication of a will (Law), the delivery of a will, as his own, by a testator to witnesses who attest it.