Customer /(kŭs"tŭm*ẽr)/

Cus·tom·er

Customer

n.
  1. One who collect customs; a toll gatherer. [Obs.]
    The customers of the small or petty custom and of the subsidy do demand of them custom for kersey cloths.
    — Hakluyt.
  2. One who regularly or repeatedly makes purchases of a trader; a purchaser; a buyer.
    He has got at last the character of a good customer; by this means he gets credit for something considerable, and then never pays for it.
  3. A person with whom a business house has dealings; as, the customers of a bank.
  4. A peculiar person; -- in an indefinite sense; as, a queer customer; an ugly customer. [Colloq.]
  5. A lewd woman. [Obs.]