One who takes or receives in any manner.

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.

One who takes or buys stolen goods from a thief, knowing
them to be stolen.

A vessel connected with an alembic, a retort, or the
like, for receiving and condensing the product of distillation.

A vessel for receiving and containing gases.

A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the
high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a
compound engine.

A capacious vessel for receiving steam from a distant
boiler, and supplying it dry to an engine.

That portion of a telephonic apparatus, or similar
system, at which the message is received and made audible; – opposed
to transmitter.