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   Observer (?), n.
   1. One who observes, or pays attention to, anything; especially, one engaged in, or trained to habits of, close and exact observation; as, “an astronomical observer”.
   
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   The observed of all observers. Shak.
   
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   Careful observers may foretell the hour,
   
   By sure prognostic, when to dread a shower. Swift.
   
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   2. One who keeps any law, custom, regulation, rite, etc.; one who conforms to anything in practice. “Diligent observers of old customs.”  Spenser.
   
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   These . . . hearkened unto observers of times. Deut. xviii. 14.
   
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   3. One who fulfills or performs; as, “an observer of his promises”.
   
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   4. A sycophantic follower. [Obs.]  Beau. & Fl.
   
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