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dyer

daɪər
WordNet
Rothmannia capensis Thunb, (previously known as gardenia capensis Druce)
Rothmannia capensis Thunb, (previously known as gardenia capensis Druce)
Rothmannia capensis Thunb. (website; Raper & Boucher); gardenia capensis Druce (Dyer); occurs in the native forests of the southern Cape Province.
  1. (n) dyer
    someone whose job is to dye cloth
Illustrations
Cytinus sanguineus (Thunb.) Faurc. (Fourcade?, See Dyer) in several flowering stages; with detailed studies of male and female flowers and cross-sections, on the left; two flower buds on the right side of the leaf.
Cytinus sanguineus (Thunb.) Faurc.
Acacia karroo Hayne (website.; Dyer; Raper& Boucher).
Acacia karroo Hayne or Vachellia karroo
View of the Arno River in Florence, where a joust takes place between dyers and weavers. Many interested people watch the festivities from the banks and two bridges. In the foreground a few carriages and elegantly dressed people. At the top of the performance a banderole with Italian text. The scene is contained in a cartouche in the shape of a fan, hence the nickname of this print.
View of the Arno River in Florence, where a joust takes place between dyers and weavers. Many interested people watch the festivities from the banks and two bridges. In the foreground a few carriages and elegantly dressed people. At the top of the performance a banderole with Italian text. The scene is contained in a cartouche in the shape of a fan, hence the nickname of this print.
Hyenanche globosa (Gaertn.) Lam. (A.B.S.; Raper & Boucher); of toxicodendrum capense of globosum (Dyer; etiket tent. 2002).
Hyenanche globosa Lam.or Toxicodendrum capense of globosum (Cape woolen gift)
Jousting between dyers and weavers in Florence (July 25, 1619). View of the Arno River in Florence, where a joust takes place between dyers and weavers. Many interested people watch the festivities from the banks and two bridges. In the foreground a few carriages and elegantly dressed people. At the top of the performance a banderole with Italian text. The scene is contained in a cartouche in the shape of a fan, hence the nickname of this print.
Jousting between dyers and weavers in Florence (July 25, 1619). View of the Arno River in Florence, where a joust takes place between dyers and weavers. Many interested people watch the festivities from the banks and two bridges. In the foreground a few carriages and elegantly dressed people. At the top of the performance a banderole with Italian text. The scene is contained in a cartouche in the shape of a fan, hence the nickname of this print.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Dyer
    One whose occupation is to dye cloth and the like.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) Dyer
    One whose occupation is to dye cloth, skins, feathers, etc.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. Dyer
    one whose trade is to dye cloth, &c
Quotations
William Shakespeare
My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
William Shakespeare
The mind, like the dyer's hand, is colored by what it holds.
Source Unknown
Etymology

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary A.S. deágan, to dye, from deág or deáh, colour.

Usage in the news

"I have not contacted Mike Dyer ," Northern said. al.com

Dyer has spent the last three years as the assistant track and field and cross country coach at Connecticut College in New London, Conn. thereminder.com

Voters Will Focus on Romney's Tax Plans, Dyer Says. businessweek.com

Jim Dyer , a Republican strategist, talks about Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's decision to select Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan as his running mate, and budget and tax proposals. businessweek.com

Larry Richard Dyer , 59, of Jacksonville, Fla. somerset-kentucky.com

He was the husband of Daurena Simpson Dyer whom he married on September 26, 1986. somerset-kentucky.com

Children's book illustrator Jane Dyer is victim of bizarre attack. latimes.com

Dyer suffered a bizarre attack in late July. latimes.com

Former KC Fire Chief Smokey Dyer : His True Opinions & Career Reflections. kcur.org

Dyer County Easter Egg Hunt. stategazette.com

Dyer County Mayor Richard Hill's Easter Egg Hunt drew its largest crowd to date on Saturday, April 7, with families collecting on each corner of the Courthouse to hunt eggs and take advantage of the beautiful spring weather. stategazette.com

MAT-SU—Just three days into the job as the new Matanuska-Susitna Borough Economic Development Director, Don Dyer is on the phone connecting with the owner of a high-tech company who was considering leaving the Borough. akbizmag.com

NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne said in a statement that Diddy, 41, was escorted one block from W 35th Street to Dyer Avenue. amny.com

From our November, 2012 issue / By Ezra Dyer. automobilemag.com

Shawnta' Dyer had 12 points and 10 rebounds, Antonita Slaughter scored a season-high 13 points, and No. kob.com

Usage in scientific papers

The Dyer-Hamstrom result requires, for most applications, a well-behaved homeomorphism group H (M ).
Problems from Topology Proceedings

I want to thank Elizabeth Wilmer, Robin Chapman, Jason Dyer, Ira Gessel, Mitch Harris, Vladeta Jovovic, Nikolaus Meyberg, Luke Pebody, John Renze, and Lawrence Sze who pointed out several errors in the first versions of the file.
Prove or Disprove. 100 Conjectures from the OEIS

For rational solutions, by contrast, the decision problem for finiteness forms an important part of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer (BSD) conjecture.
On relative computability for curves

The statement of the theorem regarding the analytic rank of E is consistent with the rank conjecture of Watkins [27, conj. 4.1] (and the conjecture of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer).
Elliptic Curves of Odd Modular Degree

Agashe, The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer formula for modular abelian varieties of analytic rank zero, Berkeley Ph.D.
Elliptic Curves of Odd Modular Degree

Usage in literature

Originally I think he was a dyer. "East Anglia Personal Recollections and Historical Associations" by J. Ewing Ritchie

Go to the scarlet dyer, and ask him how he dyes cloth. "Lavengro The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest" by George Borrow

You've been given away somehow, and Dyer has now just got you in his palm. "The Count's Chauffeur" by William Le Queux

GEIKIE, and W. THISELTON DYER. "The Girls and I" by Mary Louisa Stewart Molesworth

MADE BY W. A. DYER & CO., MONTREAL, is a delightfully fragrant Toilet article. "Brooke's Daughter" by Adeline Sergeant

Dyer's "Grongar Hill," 26: "till contemplation have its fill. "Hazlitt on English Literature" by Jacob Zeitlin

They consist of dyers, calico-printers, oil-mills, iron-founderies, vinegar-works, breweries, and distilleries. "A Morning's Walk from London to Kew" by Richard Phillips

Allan's force at the mouth of the river consisted of about sixty men under command of Captains West and Dyer. "Glimpses of the Past" by W. O. Raymond

At the latter part of his life poor old Dyer became totally blind. "Old and New London" by Walter Thornbury

It was, he declared, not a laundry mark at all, but a dyers and cleaners' mark. "Scotland Yard" by George Dilnot

Usage in poetry
Buckshee, buckshee,
And the girl that lives opposite me
She’s quite a smart bird though her people are poor
She picked up a bloke in the Army Pay Corps
And now she’s got diamonds and sables galore
D’yer see, buckshee.
"Buckshee" by Billy Bennett
Buckshee, buckshee, It means something for nothing, you see
Just take the Australian soldier so grand
They each had a wife in their own native land
And they’ve married again to have one close at hand
D’yer see, buckshee.
"Buckshee" by Billy Bennett