One who negotiates terms of settlement; a negotiator.

a party to a covenant or contract; a covenanter.

Law. A person who is bound to another by contract, or who gives a bond to another (now U.S.). Cf. obligee, n. 1a, obligor, n. 1.

gen. One who covenants or enters into a covenant with others.

Legal and gen. The person to whom a promise by covenant is made. The correlative to covenantor, n.

One who makes or signs a declaration.

One who enters into a mutual agreement.

One who trysts: (a) ‘a person who convenes others,‥fixing the time and place of meeting’ (Jamieson); (b) one who appoints to meet another; (c) one…

spec. One who contracts or undertakes to supply certain articles, or to perform any work or service (esp. for government or other public body), at…

One who enters into a convention or contract.

One who or that which circumscribes; spec. one who signs a ‘round robin’.

One who joins in or signs a declaration.