[f. APPLY v. + -ER1.] He who, or that which, applies.
1565. Calfhill, Answ. Treat. Cross (1846), 200. Either the collector of this tale was a liar, or you a fond applier.
1607. Hieron, Wks., I. 423. The immediate … applyer of the new-birth vnto the conscience.
1705. Stanhope, Paraphr., III. 67. Such false Applyers and Censurers are too busy abroad.
1819. Edin. Rev., XXXII. 379–80. The discoverer of gas light, or its first applier.
1865. Owen, in Reader, 429/3. The applier of the term.
