Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SUF'FER-ER, n.

1. One who endures or undergoes pain, either of body or mind; one who sustains inconvenience or loss; as, sufferers by poverty or sickness. Men are sufferers by fire or losses at sea; they are sufferers by the ravages of an enemy; still more are they sufferers by then own vices and follies.
2. Out that permits or allows.