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n. Admonisher. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. aumener, aulmener, OF. almosnier, aumosnier, F. aumônier, fr. OF. almosne, alms, L. eleemosyna. See Alms. ] 1. One who distributes alms, esp. the doles and alms of religious houses, almshouses, etc.; also, one who dispenses alms for another, as the almoner of a prince, bishop, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A social worker in a hospital. [ Chiefly Brit. ] [ PJC ]

3. An official in a hospital whose job it is to calculate how much a patient must pay for treatment. [ Chiefly Brit. ] [ PJC ]

n. The office of an almoner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. antiphonaire. See Antiphon. ] A book of antiphons. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who apportions. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who makes atonement. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Baboonish behavior. Marryat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who goes up in a balloon; an aëronaut. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who gives publicity, proclaims, or blazons; esp., one who blazons coats of arms; a herald. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. an embarrassing mistake.
Syn. -- blunder, blooper, bungle, foul-up, flub, botch, boo-boo, misdoing. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. one who bones food. [ PJC ]

n.; pl. Buffooneries [ F. bouffonnerie. ] The arts and practices of a buffoon, as low jests, ridiculous pranks, vulgar tricks and postures. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor that it will ever constitute a wit to conclude a tart piece of buffoonery with a “What makes you blush?” Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The use of cannon. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who cautions or advises. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Scots Law) A surety or sponsor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A coalitionist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A building or apartment for silkworms, when feeding and forming cocoons. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Print.) One who examines the sheets of a book that has just been printed, to ascertain whether they are correctly printed, paged, etc. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A colonist. [ Obs. ] Holland [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A person who has a commission or warrant to perform some office, or execute some business, for the government, corporation, or person employing him; as, a commissioner to take affidavits or to adjust claims. [ 1913 Webster ]

To another address which requested that a commission might be sent to examine into the state of things in Ireland, William returned a gracious answer, and desired the Commons to name the commissioners. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An officer having charge of some department or bureau of the public service. [ 1913 Webster ]

Herbert was first commissioner of the Admiralty. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

The commissioner of patents, the commissioner of the land office, the commissioner of Indian affairs, are subordinates of the secretary of the interior. Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

Commissioner of deeds, an officer having authority to take affidavits, depositions, acknowledgment of deeds, etc., for use in the State by which he is appointed. [ U. S. ] --
County commissioners, certain administrative officers in some of the States, invested by local laws with various powers in reference to the roads, courthouses, financial matters, etc., of the county. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility. [ 1913 Webster ]

All below them [ the peers ] even their children, were commoners, and in the eye of the law equal to each other. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A member of the House of Commons. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who has a joint right in common ground. [ 1913 Webster ]

Much good land might be gained from forests . . . and from other commonable places, so as always there be a due care taken that the poor commoners have no injury. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. One sharing with another in anything. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A student in the university of Oxford, Eng., who is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges; - - at Cambridge called a pensioner. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A prostitute. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. someone who holds or operates a concession.
Syn. -- concessionaire. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. exercise that conditions the body; as, farmwork can be a good conditioner. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a trainer of athletes. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. a substance used in washing (clothing or hair) to make things softer. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. A compounder. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Canidia Neapolitana was confectioner of unguents. Haywood. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One whose occupation it is to make or sell confections, candies, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A highly refined sugar in impalpable powder, esp. suited to confectioners' uses. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. Sweetmeats, in general; things prepared and sold by a confectioner; confections; candies. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A place where candies, sweetmeats, and similar things are made or sold. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who belongs to a convention or assembly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From OE. coronen to crown, OF. coroner, fr. L. coronare, fr. corona crown. Formed as a translation of LL. coronator coroner, fr. L. corona crown, the coroner having been originally a prosecuting officer of the crown. See Crown. ] An officer of the peace whose principal duty is to inquire, with the help of a jury, into the cause of any violent, sudden or mysterious death, or death in prison, usually on sight of the body and at the place where the death occurred. [ In England formerly also written and pronounced crowner. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In some of the United States the office of coroner is abolished, that of medical examiner taking its place. [ 1913 Webster ]

Coroner's inquest. See under Inquest. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who is, or who has been, in the house of correction. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a singer of popular ballads.
Syn. -- balladeer. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ L. deoneratus, p. p. of deonerare. See Onerate. ] To unload; to disburden. [ Obs. ] Cockeram. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who dethrones. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Scots Law) One who legally transfers property from himself to another. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A dragoon. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An editor. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an executioner who uses electricity to kill the condemned person. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who emblazons; also, one who publishes and displays anything with pomp. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Poisoner. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who takes exceptions or makes objections. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who executes; an executer. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who puts to death in conformity to legal warrant, as a hangman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eng. Univ.) One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. [ 1913 Webster ]

A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Exonerated p. pr. & vb. n. Exonerating ] [ L. exoneratus, p. p. of exonerare to free from a burden; ex out, from onerare to load, onus load. See Onerous. ] 1. To unload; to disburden; to discharge. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

All exonerate themselves into one common duct. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To relieve, in a moral sense, as of a charge, obligation, or load of blame resting on one; to clear of something that lies upon oppresses one, as an accusation or imputation; as, to exonerate one's self from blame, or from the charge of avarice. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To discharge from duty or obligation, as a bail.

Syn. -- To absolve; acquit; exculpate. See Absolve. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. same as exculpated.
Syn. -- absolved, cleared, exculpated, vindicated. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. exoneratio: cf. F. Exonération. ] The act of disburdening, discharging, or freeing morally from a charge or imputation; also, the state of being disburdened or freed from a charge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Freeing from a burden or obligation; tending to exonerate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., an unloader. ] One who exonerates or frees from obligation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who practices extortion; an extortionist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One of a faction. Abp. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. fauconer, OF. falconier, fauconier, F. fauconnier. See Falcon. ] A person who breeds or trains hawks for taking birds or game; one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who fashions, forms, ar gives shape to anything. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The fashioner had accomplished his task, and the dresses were brought home. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]