[f. BRING v. + -ER1.]
1. One who or that which brings (see various senses of the verb).
c. 1340. Cursor M., 10161 (Trin.). Joachim bringere of bote.
1471. Earl of Oxford, in Paston Lett., 669, III. 5. The brynger of thys letter.
1535. Tindale, Tracy’s Test., 6. A peacemaker, and bringer into grace and favour.
1597. Shaks., 2 Hen. IV., I. i. 100. Yet the first bringer of vnwelcome newes Hath but a loosing Office.
1775. Adair, Amer. Ind., 443. A pretended great bringer of rain.
1841. Emerson, Misc. (1855), 158. The scholar must be a bringer of hope.
1881. H. H. Gibbs, Double Standard, 67. Their sterling amount would be at the credit of the bringer.
b. spec. See quot.
1864. Sala, in Daily Tel., 9 Aug., 5/3. A bounty-broker is simply a crimp, or what the recruiting sergeants in Charles-street, Westminster, call a ‘bringer.’
2. With back, in, out, up, etc. Bringer up, one who rears or educates.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Wife’s T., 340. Povert is … A ful gret brynger out of busynesse.
1529. Wolsey, in Four C. Eng. Lett., 11. Your olde brynger up and lovying frende.
1581. Sidney, Apol. Poetrie (Arb.), 71. They were first bringers in of all ciuilitie.
1604. Edmonds, Observ. Cæsar’s Comm., 130. The bringers-up or last rancke called Tergiductores.
1742. C. Wesley, in Southey, Life Wesley (1820), II. 26. Bringers-in of the Pretender.
1840. Carlyle, Heroes, iv. 210. A bringer back of men to reality.
1865. Bushnell, Vicar. Sacr., II. ii. (1868), 156. He is the Captain, or bringer on, of salvation.
