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Webster 1913 Edition

(-ant)

Noun.

One who libels; one who institutes a suit in an ecclesiastical or admiralty court.

[Written also

libellant

Cranch.

Noun.

One who libels; one who brings a libel or institutes a suit in an admiralty court.

The counsel for the libelant, contended they had a right to read the instructions.