1.
[syn: attacker, aggressor, assailant, assaulter]
2. a confident assertive person who acts as instigator;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Aggressor \Ag*gres"sor\, n. [L.: cf. F. agresseur.]
The person who first attacks or makes an aggression; he who
begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant.
[1913 Webster]
The insolence of the aggressor is usually proportioned
to the tameness of the sufferer. --Ames.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
aggressor
n 1: someone who attacks [syn: attacker, aggressor,
assailant, assaulter]
2: a confident assertive person who acts as instigator
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):
AGGRESSOR, crim. law. He who begins, a quarrel or dispute, either by
threatening or striking another. No man may strike another because he has
threatened, or in consequence of the use of any words.