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▪ I. spier|ˈspaɪə(r)|
Forms: 3 spiare, 4 spiere, 4–7, 9 spier; 4 spyere, 5 spyar, -our, 5, 9 spyer.
[f. spy v. + -er, or ad. OF. espierre, espieur (mod.F. épieur), whence also MDu. spierre, spiere, spier (later spieder).]
One who spies or spies out; an espier; a spy.
c1275Lay. 1488 Spiares he sende to þis kinges ferde, to witen of his farecostes, ware he wolden fihte. Þeos spiares verden, & sone aȝein comen. c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 150 For prest is a spyere in his castel, to loke ofer perels of schepe. 1382― 1 Esdr. viii. 31 The hond of oure God..deliuerede vs fro the hond of the enemy and of the spiere in the weie. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xi. xii. (Tollem. MS.), Myste is frende to þeuis and euel doares, for he hideþ here spieris and waytynges. c1440Gesta Rom. xxvii. 102 (Harl. MS.), He sente wacchemen & spyeris to fecche him. 1490Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 173 Johne Hammilton callit Master Spyar. 1496Ibid. 305 Giffin to the Maister Spyour. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie i. xiii. (Arb.) 46 These terrene and base gods [Satyrs] being conuersant with mans affaires, and spiers out of all their secret faults. 1621R. Bolton Stat. Irel. 70 Upon paine of forfeiture of the said wares,..halfe to the King, and the other halfe to the spier and finder of the same. 1850A. H. Clough Dipsychus iv. (1871) 110, I let them slip, Like an unpractised spyer through a glass.
▪ II. spier
var. speer n.3 and v.1; obs. f. spire n. |