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A headdress. "A headtire of fine linen." 1 Edras iii. 6.

See Entire, a., Entirely, adv.

To tire to excess; to exhaust.

To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively. He . . . retired himself, his wife, and children into a forest. Sir P. Sidney. As when the sun is present all the year, And never doth retire his golden ray. Sir J. Davies.

Private; secluded; quiet; as, a retired life; a person of retired habits. A retired part of the peninsula. Hawthorne.

The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer. O, blest Retirement, friend of life's decline. Goldsmith. Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books. Thomson.

One who retires.

A St. Andrew's cross, or cross in the form of an X, -- one of the honorable ordinaries.

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.

xposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the Satires of Juvenal.

A swimming leg (of an insect) having a fringe of hairs on the margin.

To divest of attire; to undress.

n expletive, void of sense, to fill up the meter A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a. Shak.

ing a pig, common in some parts of Southern Africa. It burrows in the ground, and feeds entirely on ants, which it catches with its long, slimy tongue.

To give up absolutely; to forsake entirely ; to renounce utterly; to relinquish all connection with or concern on; to desert, as a person to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender. Hope was overthrown, yet could not be abandoned. I. Taylor.

(a) To bring entirely down or put an end to; to do away with; as, to abate a nuisance, to abate a writ. (b) (Eng. Law) To diminish; to reduce. Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets. To abate a tax, to remit it either wholly or in part.

r; to abridge power or rights. "The bridegroom . . . abridged his visit." Smollett. She retired herself to Sebaste, and abridged her train from state to necessity. Fuller.

Fugitive concealment; secret retirement; hiding. [R.] Phillips.

Entire engrossment or occupation of the mind; as, absorption in some employment.

The act of accomplishing; entire performance; completion; fulfillment; as, the accomplishment of an enterprise, of a prophecy, etc.