a criminal who commits homicide ( who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)

One guilty of murder; a person who, in possession of his reason, unlawfully kills a human being with premeditated malice.

A small cannon, formerly used for clearing a ship's decks of boarders; - called also murdering piece.

One who is guilty of killing another unlawfully.

Murderess.

One who murders, or is guilty of murder:- fem. MURDERESS.

One who murders or is guilty of murder.

One who commits murder; a small piece of ordnance.

One who unlawfully kills a human being.

He must be caught, for he's a burglar and murderer! – Elsie's Womanhood by Martha Finley

If he could not hurt a fly, he certainly could not make himself at home in the cruel heart of a murderer. – Kenelm Chillingly, Complete by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Was not this friend the murderer? – The Living Link by James De Mille

Uytenbogaert- so ran the tale- in the course of his conversation with the condemned murderer, John of Paris, expressed a natural surprise that there should have been no soldiers on guard in the court on the evening when the crime was committed and the body subsequently removed. – Project Gutenberg History of The Netherlands, 1555-1623, Complete by John Lothrop Motley

Sure is he a murderer! – Somewhere in Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson

The crime was prevented; no one had to become a murderer. – Old Jack by W.H.G. Kingston

He's nothing short of a murderer. – Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honor by William Somerset Maugham

The suspicion that Folco had got rid of his stepson in order to get his fortune was therefore positively delightful, accompanied as it was by the conviction that he should one day prove his enemy a murderer. – Whosoever Shall Offend by F. Marion Crawford

Then I bawled for Chips and the rest to seize the murderer. – Mr. Trunnell by T. Jenkins Hains

And you think she will marry me when she knows I'm a- murderer? – The Bars of Iron by Ethel May Dell

It was, therefore, impossible for the murderer to make use of the car. – The Man Who Knew by Edgar Wallace

" I'm interested in finding the murderer of Mr. Schuyler," I replied. – Vicky Van by Carolyn Wells

" But the man we passed in the road didn't look like the murderer, did he? – The Boy Scouts on a Submarine by Captain John Blaine

" You murderer, you night rider! – Riders of the Silences by Max Brand

By George, don't it feel odd, said Tom just as they started,- a fellow that we used to know down here, having him out hunting and all that, and now he's- a murderer! – Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope

To have known a murdered man is something, but to have been intimate with a murderer is certainly much more. – Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope

" Well, he's a murderer," said Sir Beverley. – The Bars of Iron by Ethel May Dell

Has the murderer been found yet? – The Red Symbol by John Ironside

And besides I fancy she loves George Bascombe- and who would marry the sister of a murderer? – Thomas Wingfold, Curate by George MacDonald

Would you have selected him as the murderer, from your study of him? – At the Time Appointed by A. Maynard Barbour