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n. One who commits murder.

n. A person who commits murder.

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

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

n. A person who commits murder.

n. Some destructive piece of ordnance. One kind thus named was usually placed, on shipboard, at the bulkheads of the forecastle, half-deck, and steerage, and used to prevent an enemy from boarding. Also murdering-piece.

n. Synonyms Manslayer, cutthroat, assassin, thug. See kill, transitive verb

n. a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)

"Can you ever hope for salvation and the light of God's presence, while the cry of the souls of which you have been _the murderer_ -- yes, do not disguise it, the _murderer_, the cruel, willing, pitiless murderer -- is ringing upwards from the depths of hell? ""

crook    criminal    felon    malefactor    killer   

murder    murderess   

murdering piece   

hit man    serial killer    assassinator    butcher    bravo   

killer    homicide    cutthroat    gunman    butcher   

thief    killer    assassin    villain    traitor