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al authority and dignity; a lord; a master; a gentleman; -- in this sense usually spelled sire. [Obs.] He was crowned lord and sire. Gower. In the election of a sir so rare. Shak.

See Seraskier.

See Seraskierate.

See Serbonian.

A Hindoo clerk or accountant. [India]

A native chief in Hindostan; a headman. Malcom.

A lord, master, or other person in authority. See Sir. [Obs.] Pain and distress, sickness and ire, And melancholy that angry sire, Be of her palace senators. Rom. of R.

The larval form of any salamander while it still has external gills; especially, one of those which, like the axolotl (Amblystoma Mexicanum), sometimes lay eggs while in this larval state, but which under more favorable conditions lose their gills and become normal salamanders. See also Axolotl.

, and to sing with such sweetness that they lured mariners to destruction. Next where the sirens dwell you plow the seas; Their song is death, and makes destruction please. Pope.

See Siren, 6.

An order of large aquatic herbivorous mammals, including the manatee, dugong, rytina, and several fossil genera.

Any species of Sirenia.

Like, or appropriate to, a siren; fascinating; deceptive. Here's couple of sirenical rascals shall enchant ye. Marton.

To use the enticements of a siren; to act as a siren; to fascinate.

A sunstroke.

The Dog Star. See Dog Star.

Any one of several species of Asiatic cuckoos of the genus Taccocua, as the Bengal sirkeer (T. sirkee).

A loin of beef, or a part of a loin. [Written also surloin.]

See Surname.

See Sirocco. [Poetic] Emerson.