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v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Attired p. pr. & vb. n. Attiring. ] [ OE. atiren to array, dispose, arrange, OF. atirier; à (L. ad) + F. tire rank, order, row; of Ger. origin: cf. As. tier row, OHG. ziarī, G. zier, ornament, zieren to adorn. Cf. Tire a headdress. ] To dress; to array; to adorn; esp., to clothe with elegant or splendid garments. [ 1913 Webster ]

Finely attired in a robe of white. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

With the linen miter shall he be attired. Lev. xvi. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Dress; clothes; headdress; anything which dresses or adorns; esp., ornamental clothing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Earth in her rich attire. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

I 'll put myself in poor and mean attire. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Can a maid forget her ornament, or a bride her attire? Jer. ii. 32. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The antlers, or antlers and scalp, of a stag or buck. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) The internal parts of a flower, included within the calyx and the corolla. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. (Her.) Provided with antlers, as a stag. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Attire; adornment. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who attires. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A thick solid-rubber tire, as for a bicycle, with a hollow groove running lengthwise on the inside. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ Pref. dis- + attire: cf. OF. desatirier. ] To unrobe; to undress. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. entier, L. integer untouched, undiminished, entire; pref. in-, negative + the root of tangere to touch. See Tangent, and cf. Integer. ] 1. Complete in all parts; undivided; undiminished; whole; full and perfect; not deficient; as, the entire control of a business; entire confidence, ignorance. [ 1913 Webster ]

That ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. James i. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

With strength entire and free will armed. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

One entire and perfect chrysolite. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Without mixture or alloy of anything; unqualified; morally whole; pure; faithful. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pure fear and entire cowardice. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

No man had ever a heart more entire to the king. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) (a) Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla. (b) Having an evenly continuous edge, as a leaf which has no kind of teeth. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Not gelded; -- said of a horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Internal; interior. [ Obs. ] Spenser.

Syn. -- See Whole, and Radical. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Entirely. “Too long to print in entire.” Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Brewing) A name originally given to a kind of beer combining qualities of different kinds of beer. [ Eng. ] “Foker's Entire.” Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. In an entire manner; wholly; completely; fully; as, the trace is entirely lost. [ 1913 Webster ]

Euphrates falls not entirely into the Persian Sea. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Without alloy or mixture; truly; sincerely. [ 1913 Webster ]

To highest God entirely pray. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The state or condition of being entire; completeness; fullness; totality; as, the entireness of an arch or a bridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

This same entireness or completeness. Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Integrity; wholeness of heart; honesty. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Entireness in preaching the gospel. Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Oneness; unity; -- applied to a condition of intimacy or close association. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

True Christian love may be separated from acquaintance, and acquaintance from entireness. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Entireness [ OF. entiereté. Cf. Integrity. ] 1. The state of being entire; completeness; as, entirely of interest. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is entire; the whole. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Designating, made of, or relating to, flour including a considerable part of the bran; whole-wheat. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. a sharpshooter (in the French army). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. A headdress. “A headtire of fine linen.” 1 Esdras iii. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The manner of dressing the head, as at a particular time and place. [ 1913 Webster ]

a., adv. See Entire, a., Entirely, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To tire to excess; to exhaust. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To become too tired. Br. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Automobiles) a motor vehicle tire in which the cords run at right angles to the plane of the tire (considered as a disk). [ PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Retired p. pr. & vb. n. Retiring. ] [ F. retirer; pref. re- re- + tirer to draw. See Tirade. ] 1. To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively. [ 1913 Webster ]

He . . . retired himself, his wife, and children into a forest. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

As when the sun is present all the year,
And never doth retire his golden ray. Sir J. Davies. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay; as, to retire bonds; to retire a note. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To cause to retire; specifically, to designate as no longer qualified for active service; to place on the retired list; as, to retire a military or naval officer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To go back or return; to draw back or away; to keep aloof; to withdraw or retreat, as from observation; to go into privacy; as, to retire to his home; to retire from the world, or from notice. [ 1913 Webster ]

To Una back he cast him to retire. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mind contracts herself, and shrinketh in,
And to herself she gladly doth retire. Sir J. Davies. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure; as, to retire from battle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Set Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die. 2 Sam. xi. 15. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To withdraw from a public station, or from business; as, having made a large fortune, he retired. [ 1913 Webster ]

And from Britannia's public posts retire. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To recede; to fall or bend back; as, the shore of the sea retires in bays and gulfs. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To go to bed; as, he usually retires early. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To withdraw; leave; depart; secede; recede; retreat; retrocede. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; also, a place to which one retires. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The battle and the retire of the English succors. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Eve ] discover'd soon the place of her retire. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that they are to retire, or fall back. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Private; secluded; quiet; as, a retired life; a person of retired habits. [ 1913 Webster ]

A retired part of the peninsula. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Withdrawn from active duty or business; as, a retired officer; a retired physician. [ 1913 Webster ]

Retired flank (Fort.), a flank bent inward toward the rear of the work. --
Retired list (Mil. & Naval), a list of officers, who, by reason of advanced age or other disability, are relieved from active service, but still receive a specified amount of pay from the government. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Re*tired"ly, adv. -- Re*tired"ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. retirement. ] 1. The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer. [ 1913 Webster ]

O, blest Retirement, friend of life's decline. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A place of seclusion or privacy; a place to which one withdraws or retreats; a private abode. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

This coast full of princely retirements for the sumptousness of their buildings and nobleness of the plantations. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

Caprea had been the retirement of Augustus. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Solitude; withdrawment; departure; retreat; seclusion; privacy. See Solitude. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who retires. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. sautoir, fr. LL. saltatorium a sort of stirrup, fr. L. saltatorius saltatory. See Saltatory, Sally, v. ] (Her.) A St. Andrew's cross, or cross in the form of an X, -- one of the honorable ordinaries. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. (Her.) In the manner of a saltire; -- said especially of the blazoning of a shield divided by two lines drawn in the direction of a bend and a bend sinister, and crossing at the center. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. satira, satura, fr. satura (sc. lanx) a dish filled with various kinds of fruits, food composed of various ingredients, a mixture, a medley, fr. satur full of food, sated, fr. sat, satis, enough: cf. F. satire. See Sate, Sad, a., and cf. Saturate. ] 1. A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the Satires of Juvenal. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Lampoon; sarcasm; irony; ridicule; pasquinade; burlesque; wit; humor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Seta + L. remus an oar. ] (Zool.) A swimming leg (of an insect) having a fringe of hairs on the margin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A tier, row, or rank. See Tier. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In posture to displode their second tire
Of thunder. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Aphetic form of attire; OE. tir, a tir. See Attire. ] 1. Attire; apparel. [ Archaic ] “Having rich tire about you.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A covering for the head; a headdress. [ 1913 Webster ]

On her head she wore a tire of gold. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A child's apron, covering the breast and having no sleeves; a pinafore; a tier. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Furniture; apparatus; equipment. [ Obs. ] “The tire of war.” Philips. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. [ Probably the same word, and so called as being an attire or covering for the wheel. ] A ring, hoop or band, as of rubber or metal, on the circumference of the wheel of a vehicle, to impart strength and receive the wear. In Britain, spelled tyre. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The iron tire of a wagon wheel or cart wheel binds the fellies together. The tire of a locomotive or railroad-car wheel is a heavy hoop of iron or steel shrunk tightly upon an iron central part. The wheel of a bicycle or road vehicle (automobile, motorcyle, truck) has a tire of rubber, which is typically hollow inside and inflated with air to lessen the shocks from bumps on uneven roads. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

v. t. To adorn; to attire; to dress. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Jezebel ] painted her face, and tired her head. 2 Kings ix. 30. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ F. tirer to draw or pull; of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. tear to rend. See Tirade. ] 1. To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Even as an empty eagle, sharp by fast,
Tires with her beak on feathers, flesh, and bone. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ye dregs of baseness, vultures among men,
That tire upon the hearts of generous spirits. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Thus made she her remove,
And left wrath tiring on her son. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

Upon that were my thoughts tiring. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Tired p. pr. & vb. n. Tiring. ] [ OE. teorien to become weary, to fail, AS. teorian to be tired, be weary, to tire, exhaust; perhaps akin to E. tear to rend, the intermediate sense being, perhaps, to wear out; or cf. E. tarry. ] To become weary; to be fatigued; to have the strength fail; to have the patience exhausted; as, a feeble person soon tires. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To exhaust the strength of, as by toil or labor; to exhaust the patience of; to wear out (one's interest, attention, or the like); to weary; to fatigue; to jade. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tired with toil, all hopes of safety past. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

To tire out, to weary or fatigue to exhaustion; to harass. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To jade; weary; exhaust; harass. See Jade. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Weary; fatigued; exhausted. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being tired, or weary. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a short steel bar with one end flattened so as to form a blade, used to remove rubber tires from the rim of a wheel. [ PJC ]

a. Untiring. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tired; fatigued. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Fitted or tending to tire; exhausted; wearisome; fatiguing; tedious; as, a tiresome journey; a tiresome discourse. -- Tire"some*ly, adv. -- Tire"some*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Tire-women [ See Tire attire, Attire. ] 1. A lady's maid. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fashionableness of the tire-woman's making. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A dresser in a theater. Simmonds. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + attire. ] To divest of attire; to undress. [ 1913 Webster ]