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noun

Murderer n.

One guilty of murder; a person who, in possession of his reason, unlawfully kills a human being with premeditated malice.

A small cannon, formerly used for clearing a ship's decks of boarders; called also murdering piece. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Murderer" Quotes from Famous Books

... he may look always at this white oak, or that he raged in anger when a crabbed neighbor ruthlessly cut down a superb tree of the same kind that was on his property line, in order that he might run his barbed-wire fence straight? No; I agree with him that this tree-murderer has probably a barbed-wire heart, and we expect that his future existence will ...

— Getting Acquainted with the Trees • J. Horace McFarland

... judge and was holding court in a small settlement, a border ruffian, a murderer and desperado, came into the court-room with brutal violence and interrupted the court. The judge ordered him to be arrested. The officer did not dare approach him. "Call a posse," said the judge, "and arrest him." But they also shrank with fear from the ruffian. "Call me, ...

— How to Succeed - or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune • Orison Swett Marden

... neither by a proper public sentiment nor by the usual discipline of better colleagues. Unhappily we are not yet far enough removed from just this perversion to need further explanation of the method. Indictments were fought for the reason that the murderer's name was spelled wrong in one letter; because, while the accusation stated that the murderer killed his victim with a pistol, it did not say that it was by the discharge of said pistol; and so on. But patience ...

— The Forty-Niners - A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado • Stewart Edward White

... at all, my lord," cried the corporal, hastily putting in a soft answer. "You will excuse our zeal. We know, of course, that a peer of France is not likely to harbor a murderer at this time of night; but as we want ...

— A Woman of Thirty • Honore de Balzac

... here, dang you. Get to business. You and Wyker and me dissolved partnership long ago. I've been your agent years and years. I've did my best. I never got so rich you could notice it on my breath. I'm not a thief nor a murderer. I keep inside the law. I broke with you fellows years ago, except straight contract that'll probate in any court. You are a bully in power and a coward out of it. What the devil do you want with me? I'm no ...

— Winning the Wilderness • Margaret Hill McCarter

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