applier
- a word derived from apply.
Example Sentences
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Sometimes only a sister can rub arnica on your arse when you are holding an undignified position and want to be able to look the applier in the eye again.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 5, 2018
"Lift your chin," Lea said, brandishing the antiseptic applier she had found in the medicine kit.
From Sense of Obligation by Henry Maxwell Dempsey (AKA Harry Harrison)
Thou in thyself art Lord of both, and thou in thy Son art the physician, the applier of both.
From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel by Donne, John
I told him the reflection both of the poet and applier was much too general, and made with more ill-nature than good manners.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 by Richardson, Samuel
Masser was the theoreticist—I was the applier, the one who translated equations into cold blueprints.
From Now We Are Three by Hensley, Joe L.
