DEERS

Noun

deers

(dated or nonstandard) plural of deer

Usage notes

Modern usage is likely to be regarded as an error or indicative of nonstandard speech. The standard (irregular) plural is deer.

Occasionally used in the sense of more than one species, especially when appearing in combination (such as red deer / red deers).

Anagrams

• Seder, dere's, deres, drees, redes, reeds, resed, seder

Proper noun

DEERS

(US) Defense Enrollment and Eligibility Reporting System.

Anagrams

• Seder, dere's, deres, drees, redes, reeds, resed, seder

Source: Wiktionary

DEER

Deer, n. sing. & pl. Etym: [OE. der, door, animal, wild animal, AS. deór; akin to D. dier, OFries. diar, G. thier, tier, Icel. d, Dan. dyr, Sw. djur, Goth. dius; of unknown origin.

1. Any animal; especially, a wild animal. [Obs.] Chaucer. Mice and rats, and such small deer. Shak. The camel, that great deer. Lindisfarne MS.

2. (Zoöl.)

Definition: A ruminant of the genus Cervus, of many species, and of related genera of the family Cervidæ. The males, and in some species the females, have solid antlers, often much branched, which are shed annually. Their flesh, for which they are hunted, is called venison.

Note: The deer hunted in England is Cervus elaphus, called also stag or red deer; the fallow deer is C. dama; the common American deer is C. Virginianus; the blacktailed deer of Western North America is C. Columbianus; and the mule deer of the same region is C. macrotis. See Axis, Fallow deer, Mule deer, Reindeer.

Note: Deer is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, deerkiller, deerslayer, deerslaying, deer hunting, deer stealing, deerlike, etc. Deer mouse (Zoöl.), the white-footed mouse (Hesperomys leucopus) of America.

– Small deer, petty game, not worth pursuing; -- used metaphorically. (See citation from Shakespeare under the first definition, above.) "Minor critics . . . can find leisure for the chase of such small deer." G. P. Marsh.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition