rare. [f. VIE v.] One who or that which vies with another.
c. 1700. W. 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.
1902. Academy, 18 Oct., 411/2. We have flocks of poets who are word-painters and nothing more, mere viers with painting.
