Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CHAL'LENG-ER, n.

1. One who challenges; one who invites to a single combat; one who calls on another by way of defiance. – Shak.
2. One who claims superiority; one who claims any thing as his right, or makes pretensions to it. – Hooker.
3. One who calls a juror, or a jury, from the trial of his cause.