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Fielder :: Fielder (n.) A ball payer who stands out in the field to catch or stop balls.

Snowball :: Snowball (n.) The Guelder-rose.

Wielder :: Wielder (n.) One who wields or employs; a manager; a controller.

Presbyter :: Presbyter (n.) An elder in the early Christian church. See 2d Citation under Bishop, n., 1..

Duenna :: Duenna (n.) An elderly lady holding a station between a governess and companion, and appointed to have charge over the younger ladies in a Spanish or a Portuguese family..

Slip :: Slip (n.) A fielder stationed on the off side and to the rear of the batsman. There are usually two of them, called respectively short slip, and long slip..

Scout :: Scout (n.) A fielder in a game for practice.

Danewort :: Danewort (n.) A fetid European species of elder (Sambucus Ebulus); dwarf elder; wallwort; elderwort; -- called also Daneweed, Dane's weed, and Dane's-blood. [Said to grow on spots where battles were fought against the Danes.].

Welder :: Welder (n.) A manager; an actual occupant.

Field :: Field (v. t.) To catch, stop, throw, etc. (the ball), as a fielder..

Skilder :: Skilder (v. i.) To beg; to pilfer; to skelder.

Legitimist :: Legitimist (n.) Specifically, a supporter of the claims of the elder branch of the Bourbon dynasty to the crown of France..

Skelder :: Skelder (v. t. & i.) To deceive; to cheat; to trick.

Pharisee :: Pharisee (n.) One of a sect or party among the Jews, noted for a strict and formal observance of rites and ceremonies and of the traditions of the elders, and whose pretensions to superior sanctity led them to separate themselves from the other Jews..

Pique :: Pique (n.) In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one..

Viburnum :: Viburnum (n.) A genus of shrubs having opposite, petiolate leaves and cymose flowers, several species of which are cultivated as ornamental, as the laurestine and the guelder-rose..

Eldership :: Eldership (n.) The state of being older; seniority.

Elder :: Elder (a.) An aged person; one who lived at an earlier period; a predecessor.

Elder :: Elder (a.) A clergyman authorized to administer all the sacraments; as, a traveling elder..

Porphyrogenitism :: Porphyrogenitism (n.) The principle of succession in royal families, especially among the Eastern Roman emperors, by which a younger son, if born after the accession of his father to the throne, was preferred to an elder son who was not so born..

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