messenger
/ˈmɛs.ən.d͡ʒɚ/ noun B2- One who brings messages.
- The secretary bird.
- The supporting member of an aerial cable (electric power or telephone or data).
- A person appointed to perform certain ministerial duties under bankrupt and insolvent laws, such as to take charge of the estate of the bankrupt or insolvent.
- An instant messenger program.
- A forerunner or harbinger.
- A light scudding cloud preceding a storm.
- A piece of paper, etc., blown up a string to a kite.
Plural messengers
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This second signature explained everything to Franz, who now understood the objection of the messenger to coming up into the apartment; the street was safer for him.
The Bowman immediately shot out an arrow and said to the Lion: “I send thee my messenger, that from him thou mayest learn what I myself shall be when I assail thee.” The wounded Lion rushed away in great fear, and when a Fox who had seen it all happen told him to be of good courage and not to back off at the first attack he replied: “You counsel me in vain; for if he sends so fearful a messenger, how shall I abide the attack of the man himself?”
Close at the heels of his messenger came Cecil Barker, our friend of the moated Manor House.
de Blacas, “will go and find my messenger.”
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