aggressor
    n 1: someone who attacks [syn: attacker, aggressor,
         assailant, assaulter]
    2: a confident assertive person who acts as instigator

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.
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         The insolence of the aggressor is usually proportioned
         to the tameness of the sufferer.         --Ames.
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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.