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noun

Squire n. A square; a measure; a rule. (Obs.) "With golden squire."

Squire n.

A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.

A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See Esquire. (Eng.) "His privy knights and squires."

A male attendant on a great personage; also (Colloq.), a devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau.

A title of office and courtesy. See under Esquire.

verb

Squire v. t. (past & past part. squired; pres. part. squiring)

To attend as a squire.

To attend as a beau, or gallant, for aid and protection; as, to squire a lady. (Colloq.)

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... of such and such flagrant evils; but the streets in November would be just as muddy as ever, and slight inconvenience might be caused in certain improbable contingencies to the duke or the cotton-spinner, the squire or the mine-owner." They omit to note that much graver inconvenience is caused at present to the millions who are shut out from the fields and the sunshine, who are sweated all day for a miserable wage, or who are forced to pay fancy prices ...

— Post-Prandial Philosophy • Grant Allen

... himself open to the charge of uxoriousness. The physician attendant at the birth of the infant King of Rome declared that the mother would succumb to a second confinement, and the father exercised a self-restraint consonant with the consideration he had displayed at the birth of his heir. He was the squire and constant attendant of his spouse, her riding-master even, and often her playfellow in the romps of which she was still fond. Scenes of idyllic bliss were daily observed by the keen eyes of the attendants. The choice of governesses, tutors, and servants for the little prince was personally ...

— The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte - Vol. III. (of IV.) • William Milligan Sloane

... cast in Prisoners over the detestable Lossiemouth, that one may feel that after all the heroine has done well for herself from a social point of view. If social conditions are indeed a barrier, let them be treated with a sort of noble shame, as the love of the keeper Tregarva for the squire's daughter Honoria is treated in Yeast; let them not be fastidiously ignored over ...

— The Silent Isle • Arthur Christopher Benson

... tinker reply'd, What! must Joan my sweet bride Be a lady in chariots of pleasure to ride? Must we have gold and land ev'ry day at command? Then I shall be a squire I well understand: Well I thank your good grace, and your love I embrace, I was never before in ...

— The Book of Brave Old Ballads • Unknown

... combattoit,—si la quartre partie de ses gens luy eussent ressemble, la journee eust ete pour eux." Still more notably, in the episode of fight which Froissart stops to tell just before, between the Sire de Verclef, (on Severn) and the Picard squire Jean de Helennes: the Englishman, losing his sword, dismounts to recover it, on which Helennes casts his own at him with such aim and force "qu'il acconsuit l'Anglois es cuisses, tellement que l'espee entra dedans et le cousit ...

— Our Fathers Have Told Us - Part I. The Bible of Amiens • John Ruskin

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