Hypertext Webster Gateway: "debtor"
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)
Debtor
Various regulations as to the relation between debtor and
creditor are laid down in the Scriptures.
(1.) The debtor was to deliver up as a pledge to the creditor
what he could most easily dispense with (Deut. 24:10, 11).
(2.) A mill, or millstone, or upper garment, when given as a
pledge, could not be kept over night (Ex. 22:26, 27).
(3.) A debt could not be exacted during the Sabbatic year
(Deut. 15:1-15).
For other laws bearing on this relation see Lev. 25:14, 32,
39; Matt. 18:25, 34.
(4.) A surety was liable in the same way as the original
debtor (Prov. 11:15; 17:18).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Debtor \Debt"or\, n. [OE. dettur, dettour, OF. detor, detur,
detour, F. d['e]biteur, fr. L. debitor, fr. debere to owe.
See {Debt}.]
One who owes a debt; one who is indebted; -- correlative to
creditor.
[I 'll] bring your latter hazard back again, And
thankfully rest debtor for the first. --Shak.
In Athens an insolvent debtor became slave to his
creditor. --Mitford.
Debtors for our lives to you. --Tennyson.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
debtor
n : someone who owes money [ant: {creditor}]
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