| 单词 |
signer |
| 释义 |
signer|ˈsaɪnə(r)|
[f. sign v.1 + -er1.]
1. a. One who signs; a signatory.
1611Cotgr., Signeur, a signer, subscriber; marker. 1718Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 404, I am flattered with a hundred signers at Glasgow. 1771Luckombe Hist. Print. 121 This was laid open in the said petition: the signers of it were, John Harrison [etc.]. 1854E. G. Holland Mem. J. Badger x. 172 He secured more than a hundred signers to the pledge. 1884F. F. Miller Life Ht. Martineau 199 Her name headed the list of signers.
b. U.S. (Usu. with capital initial.) spec. One of the signatories to the Declaration of Independence.
1865M. B. Chesnut Diary 29 Mar. in C. V. Woodward M. Chesnut's Civil War (1981) xxxiii. 772 What is the use of being the grandson of a signer if one is not a loyal gentleman? 1913E. Wharton Custom of Country vii. 90 The high dark dining-room with..dim portraits of ‘Signers’ and their females. 1928W. A. White Masks in Pageant 67 The grandson of a President and the great-grandson of a Signer. 1973A. Powell Temporary Kings i. 48 He is descended..from what is known as a ‘Signer’, one Bulton Gwinnett, who set his name to the Declaration of Independence.
2. One who communicates by signs.
1893World's Congress Instruct. Deaf 89 These associations produce the best and most graceful signers. |
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