Definition of Qure
Quire (kwīr), n. See
Choir. [Obs.] Spenser.
A quire of such enticing birds.
Shak.
Quire, v. i. To sing in
concert. [R.] Shak.
Quire (kwīr), n. [OE.
quaer, quair, OF. quayer, cayer,
caïer, F. cahier, a book of loose sheets, a quarter
of a quire, LL. quaternus, quaternum, sheets of paper
packed together, properly, four together, fr. L. quaterni four
each, by fours, quattuor four. See Four, and cf.
Cahier.] A collection of twenty-four sheets of paper of
the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold; one
twentieth of a ream.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
QUIRE, or CHOIR BIRD. A complete rogue, one that has
sung in different choirs or cages, i.e. gaols. CANT.
- The Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce)
- A collection of twenty-four sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold; one twentieth of a ream.
Quotations
*1882: Under the year 1533 we are told that the ream contained twenty quires. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 592.
- (bookbinding) A set of leaves which are stitched together. This is most often a single signature, but may be several nested signatures.
- (archaic) A choir.
c.1590: Madam, myself have limed a bush for her, And placed a quire of such enticing birds, — Shakespeare, Henry VI, part 2, I.iii
Verb (intransitive)
- To sing in concert.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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