1. [f. the adj.] An English subject; a native or inhabitant of England. Chiefly Sc.
1683. G. Martine, Reliq. Divæ Andreæ, ii. § 1 (1797), 10. Within twentie two years as some Englishers grant.
1814. Scott, Wav., xxix. That … the young Englisher should pay dearly for the contempt with which he seemed to regard him.
1835. Lytton, Rienzi, I. I. xii. 160. William the Bastard could scarce have found the hardy Englishers so easy a conquest as [etc.].
1861. Ramsay, Scot. Life & Char., vi. (ed. 18), 187. Not in very good humour with the Englishers.
2. [f. the vb.] One who translates into English.
1800. Month. Mag., X. 319. The most fortunate englisher of Klopstock.
1879. Furnivall, E. E. T. S. Rep., 8. The englisher of the French Romance, probably a clergyman of … Exeter.
1881. Academy, 12 March, 187. Few Englishers have been so successful in giving the flavour of French verse.
