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A square; a measure; a rule. [Obs.] "With golden squire." Spenser.

One who is half squire and half farmer; -- used humorously. [Eng.] C. Kingsley.

The rank or state of a squire; squireship. Swift.

A petty squire. Tennyson.

Becoming a squire; like a squire.

Squirehood.

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

w knight and above gentleman; also, a title of office and courtesy; -- often shortened to squire.

To divest of the title or privilege of an esquire. Swift.

Opposition by which the quality opposed asquires strength; resistance or reaction roused by opposition or by the action of an opposite principle or quality.

ort unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word; -- the result of a phonetic process; as, squire for esquire. New Eng. Dict.

Formerly, an armor bearer, as of a knight, an esquire who bore his shield and rendered other services. In later use, one next in degree to a knight, and entitled to armorial bearings. The term is now superseded by esquire. Jacob.

belonged to the armigerous part of the population, and were entitled to write themselves Esquire. De Quincey.

Skill, dexterity, or the power of performing certain actions, asquired by experience, study, or observation; knack; a, a man has the art of managing his business to advantage.

doo gentleman; native clerk who writes English; also, a Hindoo title answering to Mr. or Esquire. Whitworth.

Wearing boots, especially boots with long tops, as for riding; as, a booted squire.

An inferior groom or lad employed by an esquire to carry the knight's arms and other necessaries. [Written also coistrel.]

To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch. [Obs.] An aged squire That seemed to couch under his shield three-square. Spenser.

A young squire, or knight's attendant; a page. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

ust or plunge under water or other liquid and suddenly withdraw. Adams, after ducking the squire twice or thrice, leaped out of the tub. Fielding.