[f. as prec. + -ER1.] One who fails, in senses of the vb.
1362. Langl., P. Pl., A. II. 99. Fals is a faytur, a faylere of werkes.
c. 1690. Roxb. Ball., VII. 181.
| You feed so much on Cucum[b]ers, you’d poyson half the Nation: | |
| And Cabbidge all the year beside, of which you are no failer. |
1728. in Memorabilia Domestica (1889), 12. To be paid by the party failler to the party performer.
1796. Mod. Gulliver’s Trav., 159.
| ’Tis easy! and would gain the nation praise; | |
| Wou’d give the honest failer halcyon days. |
1884. Browning, Ferishtah’s Fancies (ed. 3), 143.
| Each as on his sole head, failer or succeeder, | |
| Lay the blame or lit the praise: no care for cowards: fight! |
