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wearer|ˈwɛərə(r)|
[f. wear v.1 + -er1.]
1. One who wears or carries on his person (a garment, ornament, etc.). Also transf. and fig.
1402Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 69 But if my cloth be over presciouse, Jakke, blame the werer. c1449Pecock Repr. i. xvi. 88 Werers of piliouns. c1460Towneley Myst. xxviii. 333 Mi gyrdill gay and purs of sylk..whils I am werere of swylke, the longere mercy may I call. 1495Act 11 Hen. VII, c. 27 To the great damage losse and disceite of the Kingis true subgettis biers and werers of such fustian. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. ii. ix. 43 O..that cleare honour Were purchast by the merrit of the wearer. 1606― Ant. & Cl. ii. ii. 7 By Iupiter, Were I the wearer of Anthonio's Beard, I would not shaue't to day. a1633G. Herbert Outlandish Prov. (1640) 491 The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings. 1667Milton P.L. iii. 490 Then might ye see Cowles, Hoods and Habits with thir wearers tost And flutterd into Raggs. 1725Pope Odyss. viii. 440 This sword..Whose ivory sheath inwrought with curious pride, Adds graceful terror to the wearer's side. 1815W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 104 Half of the wearers of buskin and sock. 1849C. Brontë Shirley vi, Her style of dress announced taste in the wearer. 1860Trollope Castle Richmond xiii, There are great red swollen noses, very disagreeable both to the wearer and his acquaintances. 1869H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey II. 264 Caps, cloaks, and rings, which render the wearer invisible. 1878J. Davidson Inverurie i. 14 What wearers of flesh and blood dwelt then in the sheltered dell?
b. said of a lower animal.
1876E. Parfitt in Rep. & Trans. Devonsh. Assoc. VIII. 247 This brilliancy of colouring [of some birds] would seem..to compensate the wearers for the melodious voice..of their more sober-painted relatives.
2. That which wears away, consumes or diminishes by attrition.
1773Johnson (ed. 4). (But his example belongs to sense 1.) Hence in later Dicts. |