Reverse Dictionary: MESSENGER

NOUNS – PERSON
► BEADSMAN a messenger → 1377 obs.
► BICYCLE MESSENGER a messenger or courier who uses a bicycle to transport and deliver communications, packages, etc. → 1886 orig. US
► CAD a messenger or errand boy → 1835 sl.
► CADDIE ► CADDY ► CADEE ► CADIE ► CAWDY a lad or man who waits about on the lookout for chance employment as a messenger, errand-boy, etc.; esp. a golf-attendant → 1730 Sc.
► CARRIER PIGEON a messenger or courier → 1933 US sl.
► CORBIE a messenger who fails to return, or returns too late → 1928 Sc.
► CURSITOR a running messenger, a courier → a1604 obs.
► CURSOR a runner, a running messenger → 1566 obs.
► GHOLAM a courier, a messenger → 1820
► LACKEY ► LACQUEY a messenger; an errand-boy → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LEGATE an ambassador, delegate, messenger → 1382
► LOBBY-GOW an errand-boy, messenger, or hanger-on → 1906 US sl.
► MESHER a messenger → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► NUNQUAM a dawdling messenger → 1561 UK criminals’ sl.
► ORATOR one sent to plead or speak for another; an ambassador, an envoy, a messenger → 1494 obs.
► PAGE a young person employed by a court or legislative body to act as a messenger, run errands, etc. → 1840 Amer.
► RESPONSAL an official messenger; esp. one appointed by a prelate to give or send replies to questions → 1570  obs.
► SAND a person or body of persons sent on an errand; an embassy; an envoy, a messenger → 1038 obs.
► SANDERBODE a messenger; an envoy; an ambassador → c1200 obs.
► SANDER MAN a messenger, envoy, ambassador → 1123 obs.
► SANDESMAN a messenger, an envoy, an ambassador → 1123 obs.
► SANDISMENE messengers → 1852 obs. (Bk.)
► SAND-MAN a messenger, an ambassador → c1205 obs.
► SAYND a person sent with a message; a messenger → 1375 Sc.
► VAUNT-COURIER one who goes or is sent out in advance in order to prepare the way or to announce the approach of another; a forerunner; a harbinger, a messenger → 1561
► YOUNG MAN a male youth employed as an apprentice, assistant, messenger, etc. → 1608 chiefly arch.