Executor \Ex*ec"u*tor\, n. [L. executor, exsecutor: cf. F. ex['e]cuteur. Cf. Executer.]

1. One who executes or performs; a doer; as, an executor of baseness. --Shak.

2. An executioner. [Obs.]

Delivering o'er to executors paw? The lazy, yawning drone. --Shak.

3. (Law) The person appointed by a testator to execute his will, or to see its provisions carried into effect, after his decease.

Executor de son tort [Of., executor of his own wrong] (Law), a stranger who intermeddles without authority in the distribution of the estate of a deceased person.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)