Emily Dickinson Lexicon

COURT'IER, n. [ko'rtyur; from court.]

1. A man who attends or frequents the courts of princes. – Bacon. Dryden.
2. One who courts or solicits the favor of another; one who flatters to please; one who possesses the art of gaining favor by address and complaisance. There was not among all our princes a greater courtier of the people than Richard III. – Suckling.