n. a propeller designed for propelling airplanes.
Syn. -- airscrew, propeller, prop. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

‖n. (Paleon.) A genus of fossil univalve shells, believed to belong to the Heteropoda, peculiar to the Paleozoic age. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who sells books. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A keeper or a frequenter of a brothel. [ Obs. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Chancery. ] Chancellorship. [ Obs. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud.
Syn. -- swindler, chiseler, gouger, sharper, sharpie, sharpy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Cloud-gatherer; -- an epithet applied to Zeus. [ Poetic. ] Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who compels or constrains. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A machine that separates the kernels of corn from the cob. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who sells distilled liquors by the dram or glass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An inhabitant; a resident; as, a cave dweller. “Dwellers at Jerusalem.” Acts i. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, expels. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, fells, knocks or cuts down; a machine for felling trees. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An appliance to a sewing machine for felling a seam. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who predicts. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a person who claims to be able to foretell events in the future of another person.
Syn. -- fortune teller, fortune-teller.
-- for"tune*tel`ling, n. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

n. One who, or that which, impels. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. An inhabitant. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Jewelry. [ Chiefly Brit. ] Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Lake dwellers, under Lake. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A killer of men; a manslayer. [ Obs. ] Carew. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. a. (Anat., Med.) Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Johannes Müller; as, Mullerian duct; Muellerian tumor; Müllerian capsule. [ 1913 Webster + PJC ]

Müllerian ducts (Anat.), a pair of embryonic ducts which give rise to the genital passages in the female, but disappear in the male. --
Müllerian fibers (Anat.), the sustentacular or connective-tissue fibers which form the framework of the retina. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who holds land in a parish, but lives elsewhere. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. One who, or that which, propels. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A contrivance for propelling a steam vessel, usually consisting of a screw placed in the stern under water, and made to revolve by an engine; a propeller wheel. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A steamboat thus propelled; a screw steamer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Propeller wheel, the screw, usually having two or more blades, used in propelling a vessel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A killer; as, Jack the Giant Queller. [ Obs. ] Wyclif (Mark vi. 27). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who quells; one who overpowers or subdues. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ G., also ratskeller, prop., town-hall cellar. ] Orig., in Germany, the cellar or basement of the city hall, usually rented for use as a restaurant where beer is sold; hence, a beer saloon of the German type below the street level, where, usually, drinks are served only at tables and simple food may also be had; -- sometimes loosely used, in English, of what are essentially basement restaurants where liquors are served. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. One who rebels; a rebel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, repels. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ So named from its first describer, J. C. Rosenmüller, a German anatomist. ] (Anat.) The parovarium. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who sells rum; one who deals in intoxicating liquors; especially, one who sells spirituous beverages at retail. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who sells. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, shells; as, an oyster sheller; a corn sheller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who sells slops, or ready-made clothes. See 4th Slop, 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who smells, or perceives by the sense of smell; one who gives out smell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The nose. [ Pugilists' Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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

2. A spelling book. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ After Geo. W. Steller, a German naturalist. ] (Zool.) The rytina; -- called also stellerine and Steller's sea cow. See rytina. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. stella a star. ] (Zool.) A starfish. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) An extensive group of echinoderms, comprising the starfishes and ophiurans. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. (Zool.) A starfish, or brittle star. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. [ After Geo. W. Steller, a German naturalist. ] (Zool.) The rytina; -- called also stellerine and steller. See rytina. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who tells stories; a narrator of anecdotes, incidents, or fictitious tales; as, an amusing story-teller. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An historian; -- in contempt. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A euphemism or child's word for “a liar.” [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who tells tales or stories, especially in a mischievous or officious manner; a talebearer; a telltale; a tattler. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One of four officers of the English Exchequer, formerly appointed to receive moneys due to the king and to pay moneys payable by the king. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An employee of a bank who receives money paid in, and pays money out, and makes records of such transactions. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

4. One who is appointed to count the votes given in a legislative body, public meeting, assembly, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office or employment of a teller. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or }. (Aviation) A propeller screw placed in front of the supporting planes of an airplane instead of behind them, so that it exerts a pull instead of a push. Hence,
Tractor monoplane,
Tractor biplane, etc. This is the most common arrangement for propellers on modern airplanes. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. One who tells the truth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Truth-teller was our England's Alfred named. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]