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A propagating by layers. Gardner.

A lover. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The cicada.

One who kills a human being; one who commits manslaughter.

One who cultivates land for a share (usually one half) of its yield, receiving stock, tools, and seed from the landlord. [France & Italy] Milman.

One who mislays.

An authorized coiner of money. Sir M. Hale. The Company of Moneyers, the officials who formerly coined the money of Great Britain, and who claimed certain prescriptive rights and privileges.

A mower. [Obs.]

An annoyer. [Obs.] Tusser.

One who yields obedience. Holland.

One who overlays; that with which anything is overlaid.

A hearing or an inspection, as of a deed, bond, etc., as when a defendant in court prays oyer of a writing. Blackstone. Oyer and terminer (Law), a term used in England in commissions directed to judges of assize about to hold court, directing them to hear and determine cases brought before them. In the U.S. the phrase…

One who pays; specifically, the person by whom a bill or note has been, or should be, paid.

A kind of walking stick made from the stem of an East Asiatic palm (Licuala acutifida).

mphoid 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.

One who lays conducting pipes in the ground, as for water, gas, etc.

One who plays on an instrument of music. "A cunning player on a harp." 1 Sam. xvi. 16.

One who, or that which, plies; specifically: (a) pl.

One who portrays. Chaucer.

hence, a petition or memorial addressed to a court or a legislative body. "Their meek preyere." Chaucer