A person who pricks or goads someone or something. Also figurative: a person who incites, provokes, or stimulates another.

One who or something which excites or provokes something, as strife, passion, etc., or incites a person to something; an inciter, instigator; †a…

One who, or that which, entices; †an instigator (obsolete); a seducer, tempter.

One who, or that which, excites; †an instigator.

With of. A person who stirs up revolt, or incites others to revolt. Obsolete.

One who urges, prompts, or instigates. Obsolete.

one who provokes.

A person who urges, incites, or moves another to action; an instigator; (also) a thing which gives rise to or precipitates a condition, state, or…

Often with up: cf. stir, v. phrasal verbs.

A person who instigates an action; a proposer, instigator.

A person who authorizes or incites to action; a prompter, an instigator. Frequently with clause specifying the action authorized or instigated. Obs…

A person who encourages or stirs up violent or aggressive behaviour; an inciter. Obsolete.

One who stings; applied figuratively to Death. Also, one who goads or instigates; one who has a sharp tongue.

One who sets on; an instigator or inciter.

One who excites or stirs up (strife, etc.); one who incites to action.

One who kindles, inflames, stirs up, or incites; an instigator.

A person who incites others to action; a promoter, instigator, or originator. Frequently with modifying word, as first, chief, etc. See also prime…

figurative. One who urges on. Obsolete.

A person who incites another to crime, etc.

one who hounds, incites, or urges.

One who urges on or incites; an instigator. Also egger on.

One who or that which incites or rouses to action; an instigator.

One who instigates or sets on; an inciter, stimulator.

One who urges or incites. Also with on.

An inciter, instigator, or promoter. Cf. motioner, n. Obsolete.

A person who or thing which foments, incites, or instigates something bad.

One who or that which inflames or kindles; an exciter, arouser, instigator. (Chiefly in bad sense.)

With adverbs, as fetcher in.

A person who or thing which provokes (in various senses).

†(a) a person who urges on, an instigator or inciter (obsolete); (b) a person who puts something on, or affixes it to something else, esp. a person…

gen. A person who gives advice or warning as to conduct. Occasionally: a person who advises another to perform a particular action, an instigator. Obs…

One who spurs or urges. Also with -on.

Scottish. An instigator. Obsolete. rare.

A person who prods or pods (pod, v.2).

One who stirs up or sets in motion.

One who, or that which, impels.

One who or something which shakes (in the transitive senses of the verb). Also in mover and shaker, shaker and mover (U.S.), a person who…

In extended use and figurative. A person or thing that incites some action or reaction; a provoking cause or agent.

One who or that which impels.

one who incites; an agitator.

figurative. One who or that which initiates or is the driving force behind any activity or undertaking. colloquial (chiefly U.S.).