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▪ I. dier rare.|ˈdaɪə(r)|
Also 6 dyer.
[f. die v.1 + -er1.]
One who dies; one who suffers, or is liable to, death.
1570Piththy Note to Papists (1862), Many sundry deaths doo bring the dyers endles shame. 1638Suckling Brennoralt i. i, Dead, as I live; Well, goe thy wayes, for a quiet drinker and dier. 1887Jessopp in 19th Cent. Dec. 839 ‘I suppose I am a dier’, she said..‘I used to think I should never die’.
▪ II. dier
obs. form of dear, deer, dyer. |