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▪ I. vier rare.|ˈvaɪə(r)| [f. vie v.] One who or that which vies with another.
c1700W. Hamilton in Watson Sc. Poems (1706) I. 68 They'll witness that I was the Vier Of all the Dogs within the Shire, I'd run all Day, and never tyre. 1902Academy 18 Oct. 411/2 We have flocks of poets who are word-painters and nothing more, mere viers with painting. ▪ II. vier southern dial. var. fire; dial. var. vair n.; obs. f. veer v.1; var. vire n. |