pensioner

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility. [1913 Webster]

All below them [the peers] even their children, were commoners, and in the eye of the law equal to each other.— Hallam.[1913 Webster]

2.A member of the House of Commons. [1913 Webster]

3.One who has a joint right in common ground. [1913 Webster]

Much good land might be gained from forests . . . and from other commonable places, so as always there be a due care taken that the poor commoners have no injury.— Bacon.[1913 Webster]

4.One sharing with another in anything. [Obs.] --Fuller. [1913 Webster]

5.A student in the university of Oxford, Eng., who is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges; - - at Cambridge called a pensioner. [1913 Webster]

6.A prostitute. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]

1.One in receipt of a pension; hence, figuratively, a dependent. [1913 Webster]

The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

Old pensioners . . . of Chelsea Hospital.— Macaulay.[1913 Webster]

2.One of an honorable band of gentlemen who attend the sovereign of England on state occasions, and receive an annual pension, or allowance, of [pounds]150 and two horses. [1913 Webster]

3.[Cf. F. pensionnaire one who pays for his board. Cf. Pensionary, n.] In the university of Cambridge, England, one who pays for his living in commons; -- corresponding to commoner at Oxford. --Ld. Lytton. [1913 Webster]