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One who trolls.

nes; one who has power or authority to regulate or control; one who governs. The great controller of our fate Deigned to be man, and lived in low estate. Dryden.

The office of a controller.

One who strolls; a vagrant.

A restless vagabond; -- originally, an idle stroller or gypsy (as in France) thought to have come from Bohemia; in later times often applied to an adventurer in art or literature, of irregular, unconventional habits, questionable tastes, or free morals. [Modern]

A mean or inferior poet, perhaps from his habit of wandering around as a stroller; an itinerant poet. Also, a name given to the cyclic poets. See under Cyclic, a. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A controller; a public officer whose duty it is to examine certify accounts.

haring a feast. (i) The owner of a docile brute, -- especially a dog or horse. (j) The controller of a familiar spirit or other supernatural being.

Masking; frolic in disguise; buffoonery. The mummery of foreign strollers. Fenton.

A kind of motor speed controller permitting of very gradual variation in speed and of reverse. It is especially suitable for use with motor driven machine tools.

One who tramps; a stroller; a vagrant or vagabond; a tramp. Dickens.

A stroller; a loiterer; esp., an idle, untidy woman; a slattern; a slut; a whore.

One who wields or employs; a manager; a controller. A wielder of the great arm of the war. Milton.

, and nothing else. Reid. Appetite is the will's solicitor, and the will is appetite's controller; what we covet according to the one, by the other we often reject. Hooker. The will is plainly that by which the mind chooses anything. J. Edwards.