one who pays; specifically, the person by whom a bill or note has been, or should be, paid.

Effect in achieving a goal or aim; purpose, use (now usually in negative constructions).

A short, simple verse or song.

A type of twilled woollen cloth, often with a tartan or chequered pattern.

An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.

To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.

a fabrication, fantasy, invention; something fictitious.

A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, science, or art (such as music or painting), especially one who cultivates any study, interest, taste, or attachment without engaging in it professionally.

a very large and destructive wave, generally caused by a tremendous disturbance in the ocean, such as an undersea earthquake or volcanic eruption.

An academic institution, of various regional definitions.

In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush.

proceeding or advancing by small, slow, regular steps or degrees.

to raise (something) to a higher position.

any of various rotary machines that use the kinetic energy of a continuous stream of fluid (a liquid or a gas) to turn a shaft.