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A kind of pouch formerly worn at the girdle. Ld. Lytton. A gipser all of silk, Hung at his girdle, white as morné milk. Chaucer.

See Gyre.

See Glair.

Glairy; covered with glair.

See Glair. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An order of mammals; the Rodentia. -- Gli"rine, a.

Specifically, a grandfather; more generally, any ancestor.

A director (usually one holding a number of directorships) who serves merely or mainly for the fee (in England, often a guinea) paid for attendance. [Colloq.]

Having hair. "A beast haired like a bear." Purchas.

Hairy. [Obc.] His hairen shirt and his ascetic diet. J. Taylor.

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

, A female heir.

lace, for personal service, or for labor; wages; rent; pay. The laborer is worthy of his hire. Luke x. 7.

A contract (more fully called contract of hire with an option of purchase) in which a person hires goods for a specified period and at a fixed rent, with the added condition that if he shall retain the goods for the full period and pay all the installments of rent as they become due the contract shall determine and the…

Without hire. Davenant.

One who is hired, or who serves for wages; esp., one whose motive and interest in serving another are wholly gainful; a mercenary. "Lewd hirelings." Milton.

One who hires.

Hers; theirs. See Here, pron. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One who, or that which, impairs.

See Umpire. [Obs.] Huloet.