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   devourer
         n 1: someone who eats greedily or voraciously

English Dictionary: differer by the DICT Development Group
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8A priori \[d8]A` pri*o"ri\ [L. a (ab) + prior former.]
      1. (Logic) Characterizing that kind of reasoning which
            deduces consequences from definitions formed, or
            principles assumed, or which infers effects from causes
            previously known; deductive or deductively. The reverse of
            a posteriori.
  
      3. (Philos.) Applied to knowledge and conceptions assumed, or
            presupposed, as prior to experience, in order to make
            experience rational or possible.
  
                     A priori, that is, form these necessities of the
                     mind or forms of thinking, which, though first
                     revealed to us by experience, must yet have
                     pre[89]xisted in order to make experience possible.
                                                                              --Coleridge.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Feroher \[d8]Fer*o"her\, n. (Arch[91]ol.)
      A symbol of the solar deity, found on monuments exhumed in
      Babylon, Nineveh, etc.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Fr8are \[d8]Fr[8a]re\, n. [F. See {Friar}.]
      A friar. --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Freeze \Freeze\, v. t.
  
      {To freeze out}, to drive out or exclude by cold or by cold
            treatment; to force to withdraw; as, to be frozen out of
            one's room in winter; to freeze out a competitor.
            [Colloq.]
  
                     A railroad which had a London connection must not be
                     allowed to freeze out one that had no such
                     connection.                                       --A. T.
                                                                              Hadley.
  
                     It is sometimes a long time before a player who is
                     frozen out can get into a game again. --R. F.
                                                                              Foster.
   d8Freiherr \[d8]Frei"herr`\, n.; pl. {Freiherrn}. [G., lit.,
      free lord.]
      In Germany and Austria, a baron.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Hyperoartia \[d8]Hy`per*o*ar"ti*a\, n. pl. [NL.] (Zo[94]l.)
      An order of marsipobranchs including the lampreys. The
      suckerlike moth contains numerous teeth; the nasal opening is
      in the middle of the head above, but it does not connect with
      the mouth. See {Cyclostoma}, and {Lamprey}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Parergon \[d8]Pa*rer"gon\, n. [L.]
      See {Parergy}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Parorchis \[d8]Pa*ror"chis\, n. [NL. See {Para-}, and
      {Orchis}.] (Anat.)
      The part of the epididymis; or the corresponding part of the
      excretory duct of the testicle, which is derived from the
      Wolffian body.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Parure \[d8]Pa`rure"\, n. [F., OF. pareure, LL. paraura, fr.
      L. parare to prepare. See {Pare}.]
      An ornament or decoration for the person; esp., a decoration
      consisting of a set of ornaments to be used together; as, a
      parure of rubies or of embroideries.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Piririgua \[d8]Pi`ri*ri"gua\, n. [From the native name.]
      (Zo[94]l.)
      A South American bird ({Guira guira}) allied to the cuckoos.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Prairial \[d8]Prai`ri`al"\, n. [F., fr. prairie meadow.]
      The ninth month of the French Republican calendar, which
      dated from September 22, 1792. It began May, 20, and ended
      June 18. See {Vendemiaire}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Pro rata \[d8]Pro` ra"ta\ [L.]
      In proportion; proportionately; according to the share,
      interest, or liability of each.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Prurigo \[d8]Pru*ri"go\, n. [L., an itching, the itch, fr.
      prurire to itch.] (Med.)
      A papular disease of the skin, of which intense itching is
      the chief symptom, the eruption scarcely differing from the
      healthy cuticle in color.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Pruritus \[d8]Pru*ri"tus\, n. [L.] (Med.)
      Itching.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Variorum \[d8]Va`ri*o"rum\, a. [L., abbrev. fr. cum notis
      variorum with notes of various persons.]
      Containing notes by different persons; -- applied to a
      publication; as, a variorum edition of a book.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Deferrer \De*fer"rer\, n.
      One who defers or puts off.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Defrayer \De*fray"er\, n.
      One who pays off expenses.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Devourer \De*vour"er\, n.
      One who, or that which, devours.
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