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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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