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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tier \Ti"er\, n. [See {Tire} a headdress.]
A chold's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied
with tape or cord; a pinafore. [Written also {tire}.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tire \Tire\, n.
A tier, row, or rank. See {Tier}. [Obs.]
In posture to displode their second tire Of thunder.
--Milton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tire \Tire\, n. [Aphetic form of attire; OE tir, a tir. See
{Attire}.]
1. Attire; apparel. [Archaic] ``Having rich tire about you.''
--Shak.
2. A covering for the head; a headdress.
On her head she wore a tire of gold. --Spenser.
3. A child's apron, covering the breast and having no
sleeves; a pinafore; a tier.
4. Furniture; apparatus; equipment. [Obs.] ``The tire of
war.'' --Philips.
5. [Probably the same word and so called as being an attire
or covering for the wheel.] A hoop or band, as of metal,
on the circumference of the wheel of a vehicle, to impart
strength and receive the wear.
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 has a tire of India rubber.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tire \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. --Shak.
Tired with toil, all hopes of safety past. --Dryden.
{To tire out}, to weary or fatigue to exhaustion; to harass.
Syn: To jade; weary; exhaust; harass. See {Jade}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tire \Tire\, v. t.
To adorn; to attire; to dress. [Obs.]
[Jezebel] painted her face, and tired her head. --2
Kings ix 30.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tire \Tire\, v. i. [F. tirer to draw or pull of Teutonic
origin, and akin to E. tear to rend. See {Tirade}.]
1. 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. --Shak.
Ye dregs of baseness, vultures among men, That tire
upon the hearts of generous spirits. --B. Jonson
2. 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. --Chapman.
Upon that were my thoughts tiring. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tire \Tire\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Tired}; p. pr & vb n.
{Tiring}.] [OE. teorien to become weary, to fail AS teorian
to be tired, be weary, to tire, exhaust; perhaps akin to E.
tear to rend, the intermediate sense being perhaps, to wear
out or cf E. tarry.]
To become weary; to be fatigued; to have the strength fail
to have the patience exhausted; as a feeble person soon
tires.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
tire
n : covering for a wheel; "automobile tires are usually made of
rubber and filled with compressed air" [syn: {tyre}]
v 1: get tired of something or somebody [syn: {pall}, {weary}, {fatigue},
{jade}]
2: exhaust or tire though overuse or great strain or stress;
"We wore ourselves out on this hike" [syn: {wear upon}, {tire
out}, {wear}, {weary}, {jade}, {wear out}, {outwear}, {wear
down}, {fag out}, {fag}, {fatigue}] [ant: {refresh}]
3: deplete; "exhaust one's savings" [syn: {run down}, {exhaust},
{sap}, {use up}]
4: cause to be bored [syn: {bore}] [ant: {interest}]
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