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A pimp; a kept gallant. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

A low fire used in chemical operations.

To desire with eagerness; to seek to attain something high or great; to pant; to long; -- followed by to or after, and rarely by at; as, to aspire to a crown; to aspire after immorality. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; Aspiring to be angels, men rebel. Pope.

Aspiration. [Obs.]

One who aspires.

o dress; to array; to adorn; esp., to clothe with elegant or splendid garments. Finely attired in a robe of white. Shak. With the linen miter shall he be attired. Lev. xvi. 4.

Provided with antlers, as a stag.

Attire; adornment.

One who attires.

One of a superior breed of cattle from Ayrshire, Scotland. Ayrshires are notable for the quantity and quality of their milk.

A fire started ahead of a forest or prairie fire to burn only against the wind, so that when the two fires meet both must go out for lack of fuel.

To have or experience a back fire or back fires; -- said of an internal-combustion engine.

A box of the lowest tier in a theater. Du Maurier.

A signal fire; an alarm fire. Sweet Teviot! on thy silver tide The glaring balefires blaze no more. Sir W. Scott.

A grandfather, or ancestor. "His great belsire Brute." [Obs.] Drayton.

To drag through, encumber with, or fix in, the mire; to soil by passing through mud or dirt. Bemired and benighted in the dog. Burke.

Something especially hated or dreaded; a bugbear.

Containing or having two right angles; as, a birectangular spherical triangle.

An ancient galley or vessel with two banks or tiers of oars.

Same as Berretta.