expirer
(ɛkˈspaɪərə(r))
[f. expire v. + -er1.]
a. One who expires. b. = expiree.
1793 J. Beresford in Looker-on (1794) III. No. 79. 257 The personal property of the abrupt expirer. 1862 Lond. Rev. 30 Aug. 179 The atrocities of this year would be committed by a different batch of ruffians, by the expirers of 1862 instead of by the ticket-of-leave men of 1861. |