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n. One that carries messages or performs errands, as:

n. A person employed to carry telegrams, letters, or parcels.

n. A military or official courier.

n. An envoy to another person, party, or government.

n. A bearer of news.

n. A forerunner; a harbinger: the crocus and other messengers of spring.

n. A prophet: the messenger of Allah.

n. Nautical A chain or rope used for hauling in a cable. Also called messenger line.

v. To send by messenger.

n. One who brings messages.

n. A light line with which a heavier line may be hauled e.g. from the deck of a ship to the pier.

n. The supporting member of an aerial cable (electric power or telephone or data).

v. To send something by messenger.

n. One who bears a message; the bearer of a verbal or written communication, notice, or invitation, from one person to another, or to a public body; specifically, an office servant who bears messages.

n. One who, or that which, foreshows, or foretells.

n. A hawser passed round the capstan, and having its two ends lashed together to form an endless rope or chain; -- formerly used for heaving in the cable.

n. 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.

n. One who bears a message or goes on an errand; the bearer of a verbal or written communication, notice, or invitation; in the civil service, one employed in conveying official despatches.

n. One who or that which foreruns; a harbinger; a precursor: a forerunner.

n. A light scudding cloud regarded as the precursor of a storm or gale of wind.

n. Nautical, an endless rope or chain turned around the capstan, formerly used to unmoor or heave up a ship's anchors, by transmitting the power of the capstan to the cable.

n. In law, a person appointed to perform certain ministerial duties under bankrupt and insolvent laws, such as to take temporary charge of the assets, and to perform some other duties in reference to the proceedings.

n. A piece of stiff paper, or the like, set upon the end of a kite-string held in the hand, to be blown up the string to the kite

n. a person who carries a message

"“By αγγελος, angel [or messenger], we are to understand the _messenger_, or person sent by God to preside over the church; and to him the epistle is directed, not as pointing out his state, but the state of the church under his care."

messengers   

traveler    traveller   

queen's (or king's) messenger    corbie messenger    cuckoo's messenger    to fleet the messenger    messenger sword   

bearer    messenger boy    trumpeter    dispatch rider    herald    conveyer    process-server    conveyor    runner    errand boy   

instant messenger   

intelligencer    forerunner    herald    precursor    courier    carrier    harbinger    emissary    envoy    nunciate   

Schlesinger   

servant    courier    ambassador    clerk    visitor    minister    representative    warrior    guard    companion