Receiver

(re-sev'ür.) [From Fr. recevoir, to receive. ] (Law.) A person appointed to receive the rents, ., accruing from the estate of a person in difficulties, for the benefit of his creditors; also, one who takes stolen goods from a thief, knowing them to be stolen, and incurs the guilt of being a partaker in the crime, as an acce ory after the fact.-(Chem. and Pneum.) The bell gla placed on the plate of an air-pump; also, a globular ve el applied to a retort, to receive the product of distillation. [s. 757]