These are the meanings of the letters VECEERIR when you unscramble them.
- Receiver (n.)
A capacious vessel for receiving steam from a distant boiler, and supplying it dry to an engine.
- Receiver (n.)
A person appointed, ordinarily by a court, to receive, and hold in trust, money or other property which is the subject of litigation, pending the suit; a person appointed to take charge of the estate and effects of a corporation, and to do other acts necessary to winding up its affairs, in certain cases.
- Receiver (n.)
A vessel connected with an alembic, a retort, or the like, for receiving and condensing the product of distillation.
- Receiver (n.)
A vessel for receiving and containing gases.
- Receiver (n.)
A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound engine.
- Receiver (n.)
One who takes or buys stolen goods from a thief, knowing them to be stolen.
- Receiver (n.)
One who takes or receives in any manner.
- Receiver (n.)
That portion of a telephonic apparatus, or similar system, at which the message is received and made audible; -- opposed to transmitter.
- Receiver (n.)
The glass vessel in which the vacuum is produced, and the objects of experiment are put, in experiments with an air pump. Cf. Bell jar, and see Illust. of Air pump.