*eyer*

n. One who disobeys. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who eyes another. Gayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The range or reach of the eye; eyeshot. “A seat in eyereach of him.” B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who journeys. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) See Lammergeir. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ G. lämmergeier; lamm, pl. lämmer, lamb + geier vulture. ] (Zool.) A very large vulture (Gypaëtus barbatus), which inhabits the mountains of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. When full-grown it is nine or ten feet in extent of wings. It is brownish black above, with the under parts and neck rusty yellow; the forehead and crown white; the sides of the head and beard black. It feeds partly on carrion and partly on small animals, which it kills. It has the habit of carrying tortoises and marrow bones to a great height, and dropping them on stones to obtain the contents, and is therefore called bonebreaker and ossifrage. It is supposed to be the ossifrage of the Bible. Called also bearded vulture and bearded eagle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Money; cf. OF. monoier, F. monnoayeur, L. monetarius a master of the mint. Cf. Monetary. ] 1. A person who deals in money; banker or broker. [ Obs. or R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An authorized coiner of money. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Company of Moneyers, the officials who formerly coined the money of Great Britain, and who claimed certain prescriptive rights and privileges. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who yields obedience. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ So called from J. K. Peyer, who described them in 1677. ] (Anat.) Patches of lymphoid nodules, in the walls of the small intestiness; agminated glands; -- called also Peyer's patches. In typhoid fever they become the seat of ulcers which are regarded as the characteristic organic lesion of that disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, preys; a plunderer; a waster; a devourer. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]