*yer*

n. One engaged in an affray. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

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

n. a resident of Arkansas.
Syn. -- Arkansan [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who arrays. In some early English statutes, applied to an officer who had care of the soldiers' armor, and who saw them duly accoutered. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who assays. Specifically: One who examines metallic ores or compounds, for the purpose of determining the amount of any particular metal in the same, especially of gold or silver. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] A chief magistrate of a free imperial city or canton of Switzerland. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. an athlete who plays baseball.
Syn. -- baseball player. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a natural family inclusing the mole rats and sand rats.
Syn. -- family Bathyergidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a genus consisting of the mole rats.
Syn. -- genus Bathyergus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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

n. One who, or that which, bewrays; a revealer. [ Obs. or Archaic ] Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (R. C. Ch.) The prayer for the souls of benefactors, said before the sermon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Angl. Ch.) The prayer before the sermon, with petitions for various specified classes of persons. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Bow, like lawyer from law. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. An archer; one who uses bow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who makes or sells bows. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ D. boeijer; -- so called because these vessels were employed for laying the boeijen, or buoys: cf. F. boyer. See Buoy. ] (Naut.) A Flemish sloop with a castle at each end. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An implement for braying and spreading ink in hand printing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One that brays like an ass. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Brick + lay. ] One whose occupation is to build with bricks. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bricklayer's itch. See under Itch. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who buys; a purchaser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. NGr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; a monk; kalo`s beautiful, good + &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, equiv. to Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; an old man. ] A monk of the Greek Church; a cenobite, anchoret, or recluse of the rule of St. Basil, especially, one on or near Mt. Athos. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. chérimolier. ] (Bot.) 1. A small downy-leaved tree (Anona Cherimolia), with fragrant flowers. It is a native of Peru. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Its delicious fruit, which is succulent, dark purple, and similar to the custard apple of the West Indies. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Nav.) A very fast, unarmored, lightly armed vessel designed to capture or destroy merchant vessels of an enemy. Not being intended to fight, they may be improvised from fast passenger steamers. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. an electronic device containing a laser, used to read or play back the data on a compact disk. The term is usually used for the type of device used to play music recordings. That used for data storgage n coputer applications is usually called a CD drive. Called also CD player and informally, CD.
Syn. -- CD player. [ PJC ]

n. [ Sp. contrayerba, literally, a counter herb, hence, an antidote for poison, fr. l. contra + herba herb. ] (Bot.) A species of Dorstenia (Dorstenia Contrayerva), a South American plant, the aromatic root of which is sometimes used in medicine as a gentle stimulant and tonic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, conveys or carries, transmits or transfers. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One given to artifices or secret practices; a juggler; a cheat; a thief. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Copier. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. See Crare. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. faucon gruyer a falcon trained to fly at the crane, fr. crye crane, fr. L. crus crane. Cf. Cryal. ] The female of the hawk; a falcon-gentil. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A causer of decay. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who decoys another. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who pays off expenses. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who delays; one who lingers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. destruior. ] 1. One who destroys, ruins, kills, or desolates. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Nav.) a small fast warship used primarily as an escort to larger vessels and typically armed with a combination of 5-inch guns, torpedos, depth charges, and missiles; formerly identical to the Torpedo-boat destroyer. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. One who disobeys. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. the lowest region of the ionosphere (35 to 50 miles up) that reflects low-frequency radio waves.
Syn. -- D region. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. See Drier. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One whose occupation is to dye cloth and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

dyer's rocket,
Dyer's weed. Same as Dyer's broom. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. small Eurasian shrub (Genista tinctoria) having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as weed in England and U.S.; sometimes grown as an ornamental.
Syn. -- woodwaxen, dyer's greenweed, dyer's weed, dyer's rocket, dyeweed, greenweed, whin, woadwaxen, Genista tinctoria. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who employs another; as, an employer of workmen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who enjoys. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who essays. Addison. [ 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. [ F. flamboyer to be bright. ] (Bot.) A name given in the East and West Indies to certain trees with brilliant blossoms, probably species of Cæsalpinia. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who strips off the skin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Flier. ] 1. One that uses wings. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The fly of a flag: See Fly, n., 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Anything that is scattered abroad in great numbers as a theatrical programme, an advertising leaf, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Arch.) One in a flight of steps which are parallel to each other(as in ordinary stairs), as distinguished from a winder. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The pair of arms attached to the spindle of a spinning frame, over which the thread passes to the bobbin; -- so called from their swift revolution. See Fly, n., 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. The fan wheel that rotates the cap of a windmill as the wind veers. Internat. Cyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Stock Jobbing) A small operation not involving ? considerable part of one's capital, or not in the line of one's ordinary business; a venture. [ Cant ] Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who makes or joins in a foray. [ 1913 Webster ]

They might not choose the lowland road,
For the Merse forayers were abroad. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]