ĭn-fôr'mənt
One who, privy to the commission of a crime, confidentially communicates with the police or other governmental entity about it.
An informer
qualified person
An informer, especially a police informer.
Any of numerous long-tailed rodents of various families (esp. Muridae and Cricetidae) resembling, but larger than, the mouse: rats are very destructive pests and carriers of highly contagious diseases, as bubonic plague and typhus
An original or indigenous inhabitant of a region, as distinguished from an invader, explorer, colonist, etc.
A person or thing from which something comes into being or is derived or obtained:
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An informer or talebearer
One who gives incriminating information about others
(Slang) A stool pigeon.
The definition of a witness is a person who has seen an event or who testifies about what he has seen.
A person who tattles; gossip or informer
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
A pigeon used as a decoy.
questionee
native-speaker
A person who grew up with a particular language as their mother tongue.
local resident
witnesser
One who witnesses.
The branch of knowledge dealing with such rules; jurisprudence
The state or fact of knowing:
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