1. One who verifies, in various senses.
In quot. 1718 a translation of the Arabic title of Abubekir.
1648. Hexham, II. Een waer-maker, a Verifier, or a Maker good.
1718. Ockley, Saracens, II. 355. Then the Verifier succeeded him with the good liking of the Muslemans.
1736. Ainsworth, I. A verifier, confirmator, assertor.
1865. Reader, No. 141. 283/2. Valued by some verifier of the past.
1885. Mrs. Lynn Linton, Chris. Kirkland, II. vii. 223. Who will keep the keeper? and who will verify the verifier?
2. techn. In the names of tools or devices (see quots.).
1881. Raymond, Mining Gloss., Verifier, a tool used in deep boring for detaching and bringing to the surface portions of the wall of the bore-hole at any desired depth.
1884. Knight, Dict. Mech., Suppl. 394. Gas verifier, an apparatus intended to verify whether the gas comes up to a given standard.
