messenger
messenger is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.One who, or that which, foreshows, or foretells. Yon gray lines That fret the clouds are messengers of day. Shak.
- 2.(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.
- 3.(Law) A person appointed to perform certain ministerial duties under bankrupt and insolvent laws, such as to take charge og the estate of the bankrupt or insolvent. Bouvier. Tomlins. Messenger bird, the secretary bird, from its swiftness.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Synonyms (Webster's 1913)
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- advocate
- agent
- ambassador
- apparitor
- arbitrator
- attache
- attorney
- auctioneer
- bag
- bagman
- bailiff
- bearer
- bellman
- billet
- billet-doux
- boy
- broker
- bulletin
- business
- cable
- card
- carrier
- charge
- chit
- chitty
- chore
- circular
- clerk
- commercial
- commissary
- commission
- commissionaire
- commissioner
- committee
- consignee
- consul
- corps
- correspond
- correspondence
- correspondent
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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