[f. WALTZ v. + -ER1.] One who dances the waltz.
1812. Sporting Mag., XXXVIII. 220. The music at first is slow, but, as the Waltzers get animated, it rises to a jig.
1811. Ld. Glenbervie, Jrnls. (1910), 139. Both great walzers, and insufferable coxcombs.
1848. Thackeray, Van. Fair, xlvii. My Lord George Gaunt … was one of the finest waltzers in Europe.
1912. Times, 28 Sept., 11/5. Special prizes are given this season for the best waltzers.
b. A name for a breed of domesticated mice that have the habit of spinning round rapidly; = waltzing mouse.
1904. Biometrika, Jan., 6. All the waltzers used were of pure strain. Ibid. The offspring produced by crossing a Japanese waltzer with an albino.
