[f. prec. + -ER1.]

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  1.  One who draws blood.

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1788.  H. Watson, in Med. Commun., II. 276. These accidents seldom hurt the reputation of the bleeder.

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1823.  Lamb, Elia (1860), 226. Submits to the scythe of the gentle bleeder Time.

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1848.  Thackeray, Van. Fair, lxi. The bleeders and cuppers came.

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  2.  Med. A person subject to hæmophilia, i.e., disposed by natural constitution to bleed.

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1803.  Otto, Med. Repos., VI. 3. Some persons … suppose they can distinguish the bleeders … even in infancy.

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1884.  Brit. Med. Jrnl., in Standard, 4 April, 3/5. Free blood in the knee-joints of a bleeder.

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