One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
An appraiser.
A creditor for whom an appraisal is made.
One who assays. Specifically: One who examines metallic ores or compounds, for the purpose of determining the amount of any particular metal in the same, especially of gold or silver.
One who is assessed.
One appointed or elected to assist a judge or magistrate with his special knowledge of the subject to be decided; as legal assessors, nautical assessors.
One who sits by another, as next in dignity, or as an assistant and adviser; an associate in office.
One appointed to assess persons or property for the purpose of taxation.
The office or function of an assessor.
One who esteems; one who sets a high value on any thing.
One who estimates or values; a valuer.
One who, or that which, moderates, restrains, or pacifies.
The officer who presides over an assembly to preserve order, propose questions, regulate the proceedings, and declare the votes.
In the University of Oxford, an examiner for moderations; at Cambridge, the superintendant of examinations for degrees; at Dublin, either the first (senior) or second (junior) in rank in an examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
A mechamical arrangement for regulating motion in a machine, or producing equality of effect.