[f. VERSE v.1 + -ER1. Cf. versyowre s.v. VERSIFIER 1 α, quot. c. 1440.] A writer of verse; a verseman, versifier.
c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, XIII. Comm. Such as abuse the name of Critics as many versers do of poets.
1619. Drumm. of Hawth., Conv. w. Ben Jonson, Wks. (1711), 225. He thought not Bartas a poet, but a verser; because he wrote not fiction.
1644–58. Cleveland, Gen. Poems (1677), 63. O That I could but vote my self a Poet,… Or like the Doctors Militant could get Dubb’d at adventure Verser Banneret.
1854. Mrs. Oliphant, Magd. Hepburn, I. 9. The archer Simon,… a verser as much as a bowman.
1907. Westm. Gaz., 21 Aug., 4/1. The invidious task of separating the poets from the versers.
