Also 6–7 chyr-, 9 cheir-. [f. next + -ER1.] One who practises or professes chiromancy.
1566. Gascoigne, Supposes, Wks. (1587), 5. Why is Pasiphilo a chyromancer.
1652. Gaule, Magastrom., 39. This place the Chirosophers, or Chiromancers abuse, to proove their Palmistry.
1872. M. Collins, Pr. Clarice, I. xvi. 246. A cheiromancer would have said the same of … his hands.
