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verb

Tire v. t. To adorn; to attire; to dress. (Obs.) "(Jezebel) painted her face, and tired her head."

Tire v. t. To exhaust the strength of, as by toil or labor; to exhaust the patience of; to wear out (one's interest, attention, or the like); to weary; to fatigue; to jade. "Tired with toil, all hopes of safety past."

To tire out, to weary or fatigue to exhaustion; to harass.

Synonyms: To jade; weary; exhaust; harass. See Jade.

Tire v. i.

To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does. (Obs.) "Even as an empty eagle, sharp by fast, Tires with her beak on feathers, flesh, and bone." "Ye dregs of baseness, vultures among men, That tire upon the hearts of generous spirits."

To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything. (Obs.) "Thus made she her remove, And left wrath tiring on her son." "Upon that were my thoughts tiring."

Tire v. i. (past & past part. tired; pres. part. tiring) To become weary; to be fatigued; to have the strength fail; to have the patience exhausted; as, a feeble person soon tires.

noun

Tire n. A tier, row, or rank. See Tier. (Obs.) "In posture to displode their second tire Of thunder."

Tire n.

Attire; apparel. (Archaic) "Having rich tire about you."

A covering for the head; a headdress. "On her head she wore a tire of gold."

A child's apron, covering the breast and having no sleeves; a pinafore; a tier.

Furniture; apparatus; equipment. (Obs.) "The tire of war."

A ring, hoop or band, as of rubber or metal, on the circumference of the wheel of a vehicle, to impart strength and receive the wear. In Britain, spelled tyre. Note: The iron tire of a wagon wheel or cart wheel binds the fellies together. The tire of a locomotive or railroad-car wheel is a heavy hoop of iron or steel shrunk tightly upon an iron central part. The wheel of a bicycle or road vehicle (automobile, motorcyle, truck) has a tire of rubber, which is typically hollow inside and inflated with air to lessen the shocks from bumps on uneven roads.

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"Tire" Quotes from Famous Books

... Sheila, whativer do ye think o' this! Here's a colleen shlipped through the fingers of those bow-legged signboards and fair done wid heroism an' strategy, an' Lord knows what all, an' off her feet wid tire! Do ye take her an' feed her. Put her to bed on th' blankets an' do for her like yerself knows how, darlint! 'Tis an angel unaware, I'm thinkin'—an' ...

— The Maid of the Whispering Hills • Vingie E. Roe

... "To the halves" (in the quotation from Burton) means, inadequate, insufficient; we still talk of "half and half" measures. Montanus inveighs against such "perturbations, that purge to the halves, tire nature, and molest the body to no purpose."—Burton, Anat. of Mel., part. ii. sect. 2. mem. ...

— Notes and Queries, No. 2, November 10 1849 • Various

... with delight. He'd dreamt of the thing for days before he bought it. Indeed he'd meant not to buy it but something had snapped in his brain when he looked at it. Look at the design. Never once did it tire the eye, free-flowing and sure. Its intricate ...

— Kenny • Leona Dalrymple

... for its cause in a vanity so deeply buried in the soul that moralists have not yet uncovered that side of vice. There are men, truly noble, like Calyste, handsome as Calyste, rich, distinguished, and well-bred, who tire—without their knowledge, possibly—of marriage with a nature like their own; beings whose own nobleness is not surprised or moved by nobleness in others; whom grandeur and delicacy consonant with their own does not affect; but who seek from inferior or fallen natures the seal of their own ...

— Beatrix • Honore de Balzac

... the last house before noon, when his sixty-five-pound bicycle had suffered a punctured tire, and there had bargained with a Scotch woman at the greasy kitchen door with the smell of curing sheepskins in it for his dinner. It took a good while to convince the woman that the All-in-One was worth it, but she yielded out of pity ...

— The Duke Of Chimney Butte • G. W. Ogden

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