Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SPEAK'ER, n.

1. One that speaks, in whatever manner.
2. One that proclaims or celebrates. No other speaker of my living actions. – Shak.
3. One that utters or pronounces a discourse; usually, one that utters a speech in public. We say, a man is a good speaker, or a bad speaker.
4. The person who presides in a deliberative assembly, preserving order, and regulating the debates; as, the speaker of the house of commons; the speaker of a house of representatives.