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. A post-office clerk whose duty is to decipher obscure addresses. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. an editor who prepares text for publication.
Syn. -- copy editor, text editor. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who spreads abroad. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dispreaders both of vice and error. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. two events, usually entertainment or sports performances, occurring immediately in succession or within a short time of each other; especially, two sports games played by the same teams on the same day, one right after another. A doubleheader in baseball is often scheduled between teams when a previously shceduled game is postponed, as due to rain or other interfering factors. In such cases, the admission price for the doubleheader remains that of a single game, though two games are played.
Syn. -- twin bill, double feature. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who fears, or lives in fear. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) A block, or ring, serving as a guide for the running rigging or for any rope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who leads others by his example; a guide. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, heads nails, rivets, etc., esp. a machine for heading. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who heads a movement, a party, or a mob; head; chief; leader. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Arch.) (a) A brick or stone laid with its shorter face or head in the surface of the wall. (b) In framing, the piece of timber fitted between two trimmers, and supported by them, and carrying the ends of the tailpieces. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A reaper for wheat, that cuts off the heads only. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A fall or plunge head first, as while riding a bicycle, or a skateboard, or in bathing; -- sometimes, implying the striking of the head on the ground; as, to take a header. [ Colloq. ] [ PJC ]

n. One who has entered upon a portion of the public land with the purpose of acquiring ownership of it under provisions of the homestead law, so called; one who has acquired a homestead in this manner. [ Local, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) One who prosecutes or sues another. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who interpleads. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) A proceeding devised to enable a person, of whom the same debt, duty, or thing is claimed adversely by two or more parties, to compel them to litigate the right or title between themselves, and thereby to relieve himself from the suits which they might otherwise bring against him. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who kneads. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Eccl.) A layman authorized to read parts of the public service of the church. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor. Especially: (a) One who goes first. (b) One having authority to direct; a chief; a commander. (c) (Mus.) A performer who leads a band or choir in music; also, in an orchestra, the principal violinist; the one who plays at the head of the first violins. (d) (Naut.) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places. (e) (Mach.) The principal wheel in any kind of machinery. [ Obs. or R. ] G. Francis. (f) A horse placed in advance of others; one of the forward pair of horses. [ 1913 Webster ]

He forgot to pull in his leaders, and they gallop away with him at times. Hare.

(g) A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground; a conductor. (h) (Fishing) A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.; also, a line of gut, to which the snell of a fly hook is attached. (i) (Mining) A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Print.) (a) A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face. (b) pl. a row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- chief; chieftain; commander. See Chief. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. lacking a leader; as, a leaderless mob running riot in the streets. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the body of people who lead a group; the leadership{ 3 }; as, they hung the leaders of the insurrection.
Syn. -- leadership. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. The office, position or function of a leader; as, Gingrich held the House leadership for six years. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The quality of character and personality giving a person the ability to gain the confidence of and lead others; as, Washington's leadership was indispensible to success of the American Revolution. [ PJC ]

3. The people who serve as leaders of a group; as, the party leadership was in disarray after the election. [ PJC ]

n. an article of merchandise sold at a loss in order to draw customers.
Syn. -- drawing card, loss leader, leader. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Politics) The leader of the majority party in a legislature. Compare minority leader. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who leads into error. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. plaideur. ] 1. One who pleads; one who argues for or against; an advotate. [ 1913 Webster ]

So fair a pleader any cause may gain. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) One who draws up or forms pleas; the draughtsman of pleas or pleadings in the widest sense; as, a special pleader. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. r&aemacr_;dere. ] 1. One who reads. Specifically: (a) One whose distinctive office is to read prayers in a church. (b) (University of Oxford, Eng.) One who reads lectures on scientific subjects. Lyell. (c) A proof reader. (d) One who reads manuscripts offered for publication and advises regarding their merit. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who reads much; one who is studious. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A book containing a selection of extracts for exercises in reading; an elementary book for practice in a language; a reading book. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office of reader. Lyell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) A second pleading, or course of pleadings; also, the right of pleading again. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whenever a repleader is granted, the pleadings must begin de novo. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The leader of a circle of dancers; hence, the leader of a number of persons acting together; the leader of a herd of animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

A primacy of order, such an one as the ringleader hath in a dance. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Opprobriously, a leader of a body of men engaged in the violation of law or in an illegal enterprise, as rioters, mutineers, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ringleaders were apprehended, tried, fined, and imprisoned. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, spreads, expands, or propagates. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A machine for combining and drawing fibers of flax to form a sliver preparatory to spinning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) An under reader in the inns of court, who reads the texts of law the reader is to discourse upon. [ Eng. ] Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A device for assisting in threading a needle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A tool or machine for forming a thread on a screw or in a nut. [ 1913 Webster ]