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One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.

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One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.

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Serving to point out, as a remedy; indicating.

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Act of pointing out or indicating.

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Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.

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Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.

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One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.

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One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or positi…

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A messenger sent before to give notice of the approach of others; a harbinger; a sign foreshowing something; a prognostic; as, the forerunner of a fe…

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One who provides lodgings; especially, the officer of the English royal household who formerly preceded the court when traveling, to provide and prep…

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An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an a…

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One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or positi…

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.