Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for FLI'ER
FLI'ER, n. [See Fly. It ought to be flyer.]
- One that flies or flees.
- A runaway; a fugitive. Shak.
- A part of a machine which, by moving rapidly, equalize and regulates the motion of the whole; as, the flier of a jack.
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