Re·ceiv·er n.
 1. One who takes or receives in any manner.
 2. Law A person appointed, ordinarily by a court, to receive, and hold in trust, money or other property which is the subject of litigation, pending the suit; a person appointed to take charge of the estate and effects of a corporation, and to do other acts necessary to winding up its affairs, in certain cases.
 3. One who takes or buys stolen goods from a thief, knowing them to be stolen.
 4. Chem. (a) A vessel connected with an alembic, a retort, or the like, for receiving and condensing the product of distillation. (b) A vessel for receiving and containing gases.
 5. Pneumatics The glass vessel in which the vacuum is produced, and the objects of experiment are put, in experiments with an air pump.  Cf. Bell jar, and see Illust. of Air pump.
 6. Steam Engine (a) A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound engine. (b) A capacious vessel for receiving steam from a distant boiler, and supplying it dry to an engine.
 7. That portion of a telephonic apparatus, or similar system, at which the message is received and made audible; -- opposed to transmitter.
 8. Firearms In portable breech-loading firearms, the steel frame screwed to the breech end of the barrel, which receives the bolt or block, gives means of securing for firing, facilitates loading, and holds the ejector, cut-off, etc.
 Exhausted receiver Physics, a receiver, as that used with the air pump, from which the air has been withdrawn; a vessel the interior of which is a more or less complete vacuum.

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 Ex·haust v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exhausted; p. pr. & vb. n. Exhausting.]
 1. To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.
 2. To empty by drawing or letting out the contents; as, to exhaust a well, or a treasury.
 3. To drain, metaphorically; to use or expend wholly, or till the supply comes to an end; to deprive wholly of strength; to use up; to weary or tire out; to wear out; as, to exhaust one's strength, patience, or resources.
    A decrepit, exhausted old man at fifty-five.   --Motley.
 4. To bring out or develop completely; to discuss thoroughly; as, to exhaust a subject.
 5. Chem. To subject to the action of various solvents in order to remove all soluble substances or extractives; as, to exhaust a drug successively with water, alcohol, and ether.
 Exhausted receiver. Physics See under Receiver.
 Syn: -- To spend; consume; tire out; weary.