*rizer*

n. 1. An appraiser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Scots Law) A creditor for whom an appraisal is made. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who authorizes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. He who, or that which, deodorizes; esp., an agent that destroys offensive odors. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Elec.) A substance used to prevent polarization, as upon the negative plate of a voltaic battery. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, electrizes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who extemporizes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person who learns by rote. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who mesmerizes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One that Pasteurizes, specif. an apparatus for heating and agitating, fluid. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Physics) That which polarizes; especially, the part of a polariscope which receives and polarizes the light. It is usually a reflecting plate, or a plate of some crystal, as tourmaline, or a doubly refracting crystal. [ 1913 Webster ]

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n. One who popularizes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See 3d Prize. ] One who estimates or sets the value of a thing; an appraiser. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See 1st Prize. ] One who contends for a prize; a prize fighter; a challenger. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Appeareth no man yet to answer the prizer. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, pulverizes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who temporizes; one who yields to the time, or complies with the prevailing opinions, fashions, or occasions; a trimmer. [ 1913 Webster ]

A sort of temporizers, ready to embrace and maintain all that is, or shall be, proposed, in hope of preferment. Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who theorizes or speculates; a theorist. [ 1913 Webster ]