Ex‐ec″u‐tor (?), n. [L. executor, exsecutor: cf. F. exécuteur. Cf. Executer.] 1. One who executes or performs; a doer; as, an executor of baseness. Shak.
2. An executioner.
Delivering o'er to executors paw�
The lazy, yawning drone. Shak.
3. (Law) The person appointed by a testator to execute his will, or to see its provisions carried into effect, after his decease.
‖Executor de son tort(Law), a stranger who intermeddles without authority in the distribution of the estate of a deceased person.