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Mover (?), n.
1. A person or thing that moves, stirs, or changes place.
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2. A person or thing that imparts motion, or causes change of place; a motor.
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3. One who, or that which, excites, instigates, or causes movement, change, etc.; as, “movers of sedition”.
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These most poisonous compounds,
Which are the movers of a languishing death. Shak.
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4. A proposer; one who offers a proposition, or recommends anything for consideration or adoption; as, “the mover of a resolution in a legislative body”.
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