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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tire" Quotes from Famous Books

... up which we won our slow passage, the great beetling cliffs dark in shadows, and crowned by trees, the jutting rocks whitened by spray, the headlands cutting off all view ahead, then suddenly receding to permit of our circling on into the unknown—here extended a panorama of which I could never tire. ...

— Beyond the Frontier • Randall Parrish

... poor, we expected delay, And the usual livestock obstructed the way. At Boom we ran over a large yellow dog, At Dueffeld a chicken, at Mecheln a hog; What else, we'd no time to slow down to inquire; At Aerschot, confound it! we blew out a tire. ...

— A line-o'-verse or two • Bert Leston Taylor

... with Le Gardeur some day, when she should tire of the whirl of fashion, had been a pleasant fancy of Angelique. She had no fear of losing her power over him: she held him by the very heart-strings, and she knew it. She might procrastinate, play ...

— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby

... Seeing the sage, all think they see a squire, Companion, lady-love, or absent friend; Whatever is each several wight's desire: Since to our scope our wishes never tend. Hence searching every where, themselves they tire With labour sore, and frustrate of their end; And cannot, (so Desire and Hope deceive), Without the missing good, that ...

— Orlando Furioso • Lodovico Ariosto

... and she felt so helpless. She longed to urge her deer to go faster. She could not do that. He was keeping his place with difficulty. She could only sit and hope that somehow the wolf-leader would tire ...

— The Blue Envelope • Roy J. Snell

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