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n. A female avenger. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who challenges. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }, a. Longer; longest; -- obsolete compar. and superl. of long. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. losengier, losengeor, fr. losengier to deceive, flatter, losenge, flattery, Pr. lauzenga, fr. L. laus praise. Cf. Lozenge. ] A flatterer; a deceiver; a cozener. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

To a fair pair of gallows, there to end their lives with shame, as a number of such other losengers had done. Holinshed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. ] Flattery; deceit; trickery. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. messager, OF. messagier, F. messager. See Message. ] 1. One who bears a message; the bearer of a verbal or written communication, notice, or invitation, from one person to another, or to a public body; specifically, an office servant who bears messages. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who, or that which, foreshows, or foretells. [ 1913 Webster ]

Yon gray lines
That fret the clouds are messengers of day. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) A hawser passed round the capstan, and having its two ends lashed together to form an endless rope or chain; -- formerly used for heaving in the cable. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Law) A person appointed to perform certain ministerial duties under bankrupt and insolvent laws, such as to take charge of the estate of the bankrupt or insolvent. Bouvier. Tomlins. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Carrier; intelligencer; courier; harbinger; forerunner; precursor; herald. [ 1913 Webster ]

Messenger bird, the secretary bird, from its swiftness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who had charge of the wall of a town, or its repairs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. & F. passager. See Passage, and cf. Messenger. ] 1. A passer or passer-by; a wayfarer. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A traveler by some established conveyance, as a coach, steamboat, railroad train, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Passenger falcon (Zool.), a migratory hawk. Ainsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Railroads) A unit of measurement of the passenger transportation performed by a railroad during a given period, usually a year, the total of which consists of the sum of the miles traversed by all the passengers on the road in the period in question. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. (Railroads) Passenger miles collectively; the total number of miles traveled by passengers on a railroad during a given period. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

(Zool.), A once common wild pigeon of North America (Ectopistes migratorius), now extinct. It was so called on account of its extensive migrations. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

☞ The passenger pigeon presents a striking example of how dramatic a negative influence man can have on other species. The population of the passenger pigeon is estimated to have been at one time as high as five billion in North America, but over a period of about one hundred years large scale hunting for use as food and killing for “sport” reduced the numbers below that necessary to sustain existence of the species. At one time over 200, 000 birds were shipped to the food markets in one day. The last wild pigeon is believed to have died in 1900, and the last bird in captivity died in 1914. It is a rare example of the date of a man-made extinction being recorded with certainty. [ PJC ]

n. One who revenges. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; G. pl. Saengerbünde /plu>. [ G. sängerbund. ] (Music) A singers' union; an association of singers or singing clubs, esp. German. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ G. sängerfest. ] A festival of singers; a German singing festival. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. scavager an officer with various duties, originally attending to scavage, fr. OE. & E. scavage. See Scavage, Show, v. ] A person whose employment is to clean the streets of a city, by scraping or sweeping, and carrying off the filth. The name is also applied to any animal which devours refuse, carrion, or anything injurious to health. [ 1913 Webster ]

Scavenger beetle (Zool.), any beetle which feeds on decaying substances, as the carrion beetle. --
Scavenger crab (Zool.), any crab which feeds on dead animals, as the spider crab. --
Scavenger's daughter [ corrupt. of Skevington's daughter ], an instrument of torture invented by Sir W. Skevington, which so compressed the body as to force the blood to flow from the nostrils, and sometimes from the hands and feet. Am. Cyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a game in which individuals or teams are given a list of items and must go out, gather them together without purchasing them, and bring them back; the first person or team to return with the complete list is the winner. The items are sometimes common but often of a humorous sort. [ PJC ]

{ } the original compar. & superl. of Strong. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Two of us shall strenger be than one. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]