*lector*

n. [ Gr. &unr_; cock + &unr_; fight. ] Cockfighting. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Alectryomancy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. collector one who collects: cf. F. collecteur. ] 1. One who collects things which are separate; esp., one who makes a business or practice of collecting works of art, objects in natural history, etc.; as, a collector of coins. [ 1913 Webster ]

I digress into Soho to explore a bookstall. Methinks I have been thirty years a collector. Lamb. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book. [ 1913 Webster ]

Volumes without the collector's own reflections. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Com.) An officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs, duties, taxes, or toll. [ 1913 Webster ]

A great part of this is now embezzled . . . by collectors, and other officers. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. One authorized to collect debts. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A bachelor of arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent. Todd. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The district of a collector of customs; a collectorship. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office of a collector of customs or of taxes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mech.) That which deflects, as a diaphragm in a furnace, or a cone in a lamp (to deflect and mingle air and gases and help combustion). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One skilled in dialectics. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., fr. eligere: cf. F. électeur. ] 1. One who elects, or has the right of choice; a person who is entitled to take part in an election, or to give his vote in favor of a candidate for office. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, specifically, in any country, a person legally qualified to vote. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. In the old German empire, one of the princes entitled to choose the emperor. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. One of the persons chosen, by vote of the people in the United States, to elect the President and Vice President. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. électoral. ] Pertaining to an election or to electors. [ 1913 Webster ]

In favor of the electoral and other princes. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Electoral college, the body of princes formerly entitled to elect the Emperor of Germany; also, a name sometimes given, in the United States, to the body of electors chosen by the people to elect the President and Vice President. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The territory or dignity of an elector; electorate. [ R. ] Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. électorat. ] 1. The territory, jurisdiction, or dignity of an elector, as in the old German empire. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The whole body of persons in a nation or state who are entitled to vote in an election, or any distinct class or division of them. [ 1913 Webster ]

The middle-class electorate of Great Britain. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Fem. of Elector. ] An electress. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Electoral. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office or status of an elector.

n. A flexor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. See Lection. ] (Eccl.) A reader of lections; formerly, a person designated to read lessons to the illiterate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. praelector. ] A reader of lectures or discourses; a lecturer. Sheldon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. réflecteur. ] 1. One who, or that which, reflects. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physics) (a) Something having a polished surface for reflecting light or heat, as a mirror, a speculum, etc. (b) A reflecting telescope. (c) A device for reflecting sound. [ 1913 Webster ]