\Ex*ec"u*tor\, n. [L. executor, exsecutor: cf. F.
ex['e]cuteur. Cf. {Executer}.]
1. One who executes or performs; a doer; as, an executor of
   baseness. --Shak.
2. An executioner. [Obs.]
         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} [Of., executor of his own wrong]
   (Law), a stranger who intermeddles without authority in
   the distribution of the estate of a deceased person.