See Also: informer(dictionary)
informer(dictionary)
INFORMER(law)
COMMON INFORMER(law)

informer (iou)



informer noun. LME.
[from INFORM verb + -ER1.]
I. An instructor, a teacher. LME-M17.
R. Mathews Experience which is the truest informer, speaks aloud in this matter also.
A person who gives information or intelligence, an informant. LME.
Sir W. Scott He talks no Gaelic, nor had his informer much English.
A person who informs against another, spec. for reward. E16.
common informer: see COMMON adjective.
R. Macaulay She's an informer. She set the police on us. C. Hope Their campus spy, usually an overworked informer.
II.
A person who or thing which gives form, life, or inspiration. poet. LME.
Pope Nature! informer of the Poet's art, Whose force alone can raise or melt the heart.