Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PUR-VEY'OR, n.

1. One who provides victuals, or whose business is to make provision for the table; a victualer. – Ralegh.
2. An officer who formerly provided or exacted provision for the king's household. England.
3. One who provides the means of gratifying lust; a procurer; a pimp; a bawd. – Dryden. Addison.