dyester Now Sc. arch.
(ˈdaɪstə(r))
Also 4 diestere, -are, 5 deyster.
[f. dye v. + -ster. Cf. dexter n.]
= dyer.
| a 1350 Childh. Jesus 1158 (Mätz.) He cam to a diestare, And seide he couþe of his mestere, Þis diestere with oute blame Of þis hadde game. 1497 Will of J. Thomlynson (Somerset Ho.), I John Thomlynson of Coventry, Deyster. 1818 Scott Hrt. Midl. vii, That dyester's pole is good enough for the homicide. 1857 A. Jeffrey Roxburghshire II. iii. 120 In 1736 Robert Dick, a dyester, was summoned. |