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A violent, irascible, or passionate person. [Colloq.] Grose.

A square; a measure; a rule. [Obs.] "With golden squire." Spenser.

One who is half squire and half farmer; -- used humorously. [Eng.] C. Kingsley.

The rank or state of a squire; squireship. Swift.

A petty squire. Tennyson.

Becoming a squire; like a squire.

Squirehood.

In a theodolite, etc., horizontal cross wires or hairs equidistant from the central horizontal cross wire.

One who prepares a play for production. He arranges the details of the stage settings, the business to be used, all stage effects, and instructs the actors, excepting usually the star, in the general interpretation of their parts.

To fetch a long, deep breath; to sigh; to breathe. Shak. Fireflies that suspire In short, soft lapses of transported flame. Mrs. Browning.

Ardently desired or longed for; earnestly coveted. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

The common guillemot. [Prov. Eng.]

A tier, row, or rank. See Tier. [Obs.] In posture to displode their second tire Of thunder. Milton.

A lady's maid. Fashionableness of the tire-woman's making. Locke.

Weary; fatigued; exhausted.

The state of being tired, or weary.

Untiring.

Tired; fatigued. [Obs.]

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

A customhouse clearance for a coasting vessel; a permit.