▪ I. dier rare.
(ˈdaɪə(r))
Also 6 dyer.
[f. die v.1 + -er1.]
One who dies; one who suffers, or is liable to, death.
| 1570 Piththy Note to Papists (1862), Many sundry deaths doo bring the dyers endles shame. 1638 Suckling Brennoralt i. i, Dead, as I live; Well, goe thy wayes, for a quiet drinker and dier. 1887 Jessopp 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.