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33 words match “TELLER”

TELLER n. 4 definitions
One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer.
TELLERSHIP n.
The office or employment of a teller.
FORETELLER n.
One who predicts. Boyle.
STELLER n.
The rytina; -- called also stellerine.
STELLERID n.
A starfish.
STELLERIDA n.
An extensive group of echinoderms, comprising the starfishes and ophiurans.
STELLERIDAN; STELLERIDEAN n.
A starfish, or brittle star.
STORY-TELLER n. 3 definitions
lls stories; a narrator of anecdotes,incidents, or fictitious tales; as, an amusing story-teller.
TALETELLER n.
One who tells tales or stories, especially in a mischievous or officious manner; a talebearer; a telltale; a tattler.
TRUTH-TELLER n.
One who tells the truth. Truth-teller was our England's Alfred named. Tennyson.
ABUSE v.
To revile; to reproach coarsely; to disparage. The . . . tellers of news abused the general. Macaulay.
APOLOGER n.
A teller of apologues. [Obs.]
BABBLER n.
An idle talker; an irrational prater; a teller of secrets. Great babblers, or talkers, are not fit for trust. L'Estrange.
CARD n.
kely to happen; foretold and expected but not yet brought to pass; -- a phrase of fortune tellers that has come into common use; also, according to the programme. -- Playing card, cards used in playing games; specifically, the cards cards used playing which and other games of chance, and having each pack divided onto…
CHIROSOPHIST n.
A fortune teller.
CUNNINGMAN n.
A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries. [Obs.] Hudibras.
FATILOQUIST n.
A fortune teller.
GESTOUR n.
A reciter of gests or legendary tales; a story-teller. [Obs.] Minstrels and gestours for to tell tales. Chaucer.
GROMWELL n.
y used, because of its stony pericarp, in the cure of gravel. The German gromwell is the Stellera. [Written also gromill.]
PREDICTOR n.
One who predicts; a foreteller.
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