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

An old spelling of Camphor.

A plant (Agathotes Chirayta) found in Northern India, having medicinal properties to the gentian, and esteemed as a tonic and febrifuge.

A massive variety of fluor spar, found in Derbyshire, England, and wrought into vases and other ornamental work.

A syllogism in which the proof of the major or minor premise, or both, is introduced with the premises themselves, and the conclusion is derived in the ordinary manner. [Written also epicheirema.]

. A steam boiler having two flues which contain the furnaces and extend through the boiler from end to end.

A division of birds including the swifts and humming birds. So called from the length of the distal part of the wing.

To hire out. [Obs.] Spenser.

To hire again.

cks and on cliffs along the seacoast, and is used for pickles. Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! Scak.

m; esp., the blue transparent variety of corundum, highly prized as a gem. of rubies, sapphires, and of pearlés white. Chaucer.

n, usually identical with a county, but sometimes limited to a smaller district; as, Wiltshire, Yorkshire, Richmondshire, Hallamshire. An indefinite number of these hundreds make up a county or shire. Blackstone.

One of an English breed of heavy draft horses believed to be descended largely from the horses used in war in the days of heavy armor. They are the largest of the British draft breeds, and have long hair on the back of the cannons and fetlocks. Brown or bay with white on the face and legs is now the commonest color.…

An English breed of black-faced hornless sheep similar to the Southdown, but larger, now extensively raised in many parts of the world.