changer (chanjer)

[ camjaire, cambiador, camjador = Sp. Pg. cam biador = It. cambia tore, ML. cambiator ), changen, change.] 1. One who changes or alters the form of anything. Changer of all things, yet immutable, Before and after all, the first and last. G. Fletcher, Christ's Triumph, ii. 40. 2t. One who is employed in changing and discounting money; a money-changer. .. The bed of a stream of water; the hollow or course in which a stream flows. It is not so easy.. to change the channel , and turn their streams another way. Spenser, State of Ireland. 2. The deeper part of a river, or of an estuary, bay, etc., where the current flows, or which is most convenient for the track of a ship.-3. As specifically applied in certain cases: ( a ) A part of the sea constituting a pa ageway between a continent and an island, or between two islands; a strait: as, the English channel, between France and England, leading to the strait of Dover; St. George's channel , between Great Britain and Ireland, leading to the Irish sea; the Mozambique channel. (b) A wide arm of the sea extending a considerable distance int land: as, channel England.-4. That by which something pa es or is transmitted; means of pa ing, conveying, transmitting, reaching, or gaining: as, the news was conveyed to us by different channels; channels of influence. This reputation [of being a Fakir] opened me, privately, a channel for purchasing many Arabic manuscripts. Bruce , Source of the Nile, I. 25. He has neither friends nor enemies, but values men only as channels of power. Emerson , Conduct of Life. 5. The trough used to conduct molten metal He drove them all out of the temple, and poured out the changers ' money. John ii. 15. 3. One given to change; one who is inc on from a furnace to the molds.-6. A furrow or stant or fickle.