*iler*

{ ‖ ‖ } n. [ Mex. Sp., fr. Sp. alfiler pin. ] Same as Alfilaria. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. One who assails. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) See Bailor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who bails or lades. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A utensil, as a bucket or cup, used in bailing; a machine for bailing water out of a pit. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, beguiles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who bewails or laments. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who extorts, or endeavors to extort, money, by black mailing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who boils. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A vessel in which any thing is boiled. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The word boiler is a generic term covering a great variety of kettles, saucepans, clothes boilers, evaporators, coppers, retorts, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mech.) A strong metallic vessel, usually of wrought iron plates riveted together, or a composite structure variously formed, in which steam is generated for driving engines, or for heating, cooking, or other purposes. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The earliest steam boilers were usually spheres or sections of spheres, heated wholly from the outside. Watt used the wagon boiler (shaped like the top of a covered wagon) which is still used with low pressures. Most of the boilers in present use may be classified as plain cylinder boilers, flue boilers, sectional and tubular boilers. [ 1913 Webster ]

Barrel of a boiler, the cylindrical part containing the flues. --
Boiler plate,
Boiler iron, plate or rolled iron of about a quarter to a half inch in thickness, used for making boilers and tanks, for covering ships, etc. --
Cylinder boiler, one which consists of a single iron cylinder. --
Flue boilers are usually single shells containing a small number of large flues, through which the heat either passes from the fire or returns to the chimney, and sometimes containing a fire box inclosed by water. --
Locomotive boiler, a boiler which contains an inclosed fire box and a large number of small flues leading to the chimney. --
Multiflue boiler. Same as Tubular boiler, below. --
Sectional boiler, a boiler composed of a number of sections, which are usually of small capacity and similar to, and connected with, each other. By multiplication of the sections a boiler of any desired capacity can be built up. --
Tubular boiler, a boiler containing tubes which form flues, and are surrounded by the water contained in the boiler. See Illust. of Steam boiler, under Steam. --
Tubulous boiler. See under Tubulous. See Tube, n., 6, and 1st Flue. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sunken reef; esp., a coral reef on which the sea breaks heavily. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. a loose protective smock worn over ordinary clothing for dirty work. [ British ]
Syn. -- overall, boilers suit. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. bouillerie. ] A place and apparatus for boiling, as for evaporating brine in salt making. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who excites broils; one who engages in or promotes noisy quarrels. [ 1913 Webster ]

What doth he but turn broiler, . . . make new libels against the church? Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who broils, or cooks by broiling. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A gridiron or other utensil used in broiling, or the compartment in a stove where such a utensil is located. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A chicken or other bird fit for broiling. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or } n. One who cavils. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cavilers at the style of the Scriptures. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. compiluor; cf. OF. compileor, fr. L. compilator. ] 1. One who compiles; esp., one who makes books by compilation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Computers) a computer program that decodes instructions written in a higher-level computer language to produce an assembly-language program or an executable program in machine language. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. One who curtails. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who defiles; one who corrupts or violates; that which pollutes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who despoils. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who details. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who embroils. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who works with a file. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A variety of water-tube boiler, used chiefly in steam automobiles, consisting of a nest of strong tubes with very little water space, kept nearly red hot so that the water as it trickles drop by drop into the tubes is immediately flashed into steam and superheated. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. One who foils or frustrates. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A jailer. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. guileor. ] A deceiver; one who deludes, or uses guile. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.[ See 2d Hobbler. ] A light horseman. See 2d Hobbler. [ Obs. ] Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. jailer, gailer, OF. geolier, F. geôlier. See Jail. ] The keeper of a jail or prison. [ Written also jailor, gaoler. ]

n. [ Kilo- + erg. ] (Physics) A unit of work equal to one thousand ergs. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

pos>n. A steam boiler having two flues which contain the furnaces and extend through the boiler from end to end. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One whose occupation is to make nails; a nail maker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who fastens with, or drives, nails. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A woman who makes nails. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Naileries A factory where nails are made. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who deals in oils. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who, or that which, oils. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An oil tanker. [ PJC ]

4. A ship which is powered by oil. [ PJC ]

5. An oilcan. [ PJC ]

n. [ Cf. F. huilerie. ] The business, the place of business, or the goods, of a maker of, or dealer in, oils. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A lampooner. [ R. ] Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who places things in a pile. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Written also postiller. ] One who writers marginal notes; one who illustrates the text of a book by notes in the margin. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A term applied derisively to any literary or artistic work, and esp. a painting, done simply for money and the means of living. [ Cant ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who rails; one who scoffs, insults, censures, or reproaches with opprobrious language. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, recoils. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who reconciles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who retails anything; as, a retailer of merchandise; a retailer of gossip; -- used also of businesses, including large corporations; as, Sears, Roebuck is one the the country's largest retailers. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. One who reviles. 1. Cor. vi. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A sailor. [ R. ] Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A ship or other vessel; -- with qualifying words descriptive of speed or manner of sailing; as, a heavy sailer; a fast sailer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who smiles. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who corrupts, mars, or renders useless. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Aeronautics) A device attached to the wing of an airplane or other airfoil, which breaks the smooth flow of air during flight and decreases the lift of the airfoil; -- used to control the attitude of the airplane during banking or descent. [ PJC ]

4. A device attached to a car to decrease lift and increase traction, usually shaped as a flat surface and attached above the rear of the car, and working on the same principal as the aircraft spoiler{ 3 }. [ PJC ]

n. One who paints or colors in figures by means of stencil. [ Written also stenciller. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A man whose occupation is to cover buildings with tiles. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]