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▪ I. tire, n.1|taɪə(r)|
Forms: 4 tyr, 5–9 tyre, 6 tier, 6–7 tyer, 6– tire.
[Aphetic f. atir, attire n.]
†1. Apparatus, equipment, accoutrement, outfit: = attire n. 1. Obs.
13..Guy Warw. (A.) 7306 + st. ccli, A swift ernand stede..His tire it was ful gay. c1330Amis & Amil. 1245 That knight, With helm and plate and brini bright, His tire it was ful gay. c1400R. Gloucester's Chron. 1188 A þousend gode kniȝtes þerinne were adreint & al hor atir [MSS. α, β tyr, tire] & tresour was also aseint. 1608Shakes. Per. iii. ii. 22, I much maruaile that your Lordship, Hauing rich tire about you, should at these early howers, Shake off the golden slumber of repose. 1622F. Markham Bk. War iii. x. §5 Ordnance ready mounted with all their cooplements, Ornaments, Tires, and necessaries which belong vnto the same. 1705J. Philips Blenheim 78 Immediate Sieges, and the Tire of War Rowl in thy eager Mind.
2. Dress, apparel, raiment; = attire n. 3. arch.
† bonnet of tire (Sc. Obs.), a cap of estate, cap of maintenance (see cap n.1 4 g).
13..Coer de L. 332 In anothir tyre he hym dyght. 1340–70Alex. & Dind. 883 Þat..ȝoure wiuus Ne gon in no gay tyr. a1400Siege of Troy 1190 in Archiv neu. Spr. LXXII. 37 His modir..sende him into þeo lond of Parchy In a maydenes tyr [v.r. wede]. 1473–4Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 32 To covir hire bonatis of tyre. 1536Bellenden Boece's Cron. Scot. xiii. viii. (1821) II. 327 This legat als presentit ane bonat of tire, maid in maner of diademe, of purpoure hew; to signify that he was defendar of the faith. c1600Shakes. Sonn. liii. 8 You in Grecian tires are painted new. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. xii. 517 Of all their stately tyres disrobed when they bee. 1719D'Urfey Pills (1872) IV. 81 It is not your flaunting Tires, Are the cause of Men's Desires. 1850Blackie æschylus II. 96 Your tire rich-flaunting with barbaric pride Bespeaks you strangers.
†b. transf. and fig. ‘Vesture’, ‘attire’. Obs.
1594Carew Tasso (1881) 96 Or she her shamefast and downe clyned eyes With tire and taint of honesty embowres. a1600M. Cosowarth in Farr S.P. Eliz. (1845) II. 407 If thou disrobe me of th' earthe's tyre I weare. a1660Hammond Serm. Wks. 1684 IV. 572 Had not the second person of the Trinity..come down in his tire and personation of flesh. 1695Woodward Nat. Hist. Earth vi. (1723) 294 They [plants] display themselves, shewing their whole Tire of Leaves.
3. spec. A covering, dress, or ornament for a woman's head; a head-dress; = attire n. 4; in some cases perh. confused with tiar, tiara. Also transf. and fig. arch.
c1425Cast. Persev. 223 in Macro Plays 84 [Devil says] On Mankynde is my trost, in contre I-knowe, With my tyre & with my tayl, tytly to tene. 1481–90Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 442 Item..fur a peyer of tyres..and a serclett for my Lady Barnes. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII 7, vi. ladyes..with marueylous ryche & straunge tiers on their heades. 1560Bible (Genev.) Isa. iii. 18 In that day shal the Lord take away the ornament of the slippers, & the calles, & the rounde tyres. Ibid. 20 The tyres of the head, and the sloppes. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. x. 31 And on her head she wore a tyre of gold. 1610Histrio-m. ii. 117 Post. My maisters, what tire wears your lady on her head? Bel. Four squirrels tails tied in a true loves knot. 1630Drayton Muses Elizium ii. 213 And for thy head Ile haue a Tyer Of netting. 1639Bury Wills (Camden) 183 A mourning tire on their heads, such as gentlewomen weare at the time of ffuneralls. 1653J. Hall Paradoxes 67 What Towers doe the Turkish Tires weare upon their womens heads? 1851D. Wilson Preh. Ann. (1863) II. iii. v. 148 The maiden coronet or tire for the hair. 1851C. L. Smith tr. Tasso i. xlvii, Her forehead lacked its tire. 1887Suppl. to Jamieson, Tire, Tyre, a snood or narrow band for the hair, worn by females.
4. Ornamentation of various kinds: see quots. dial. or local.
1876Whitby Gloss., Tire, the metallic embellishments of cabinet work. 1887Suppl. to Jamieson, Tire, tyre..an ornamental edging used by cabinet-makers and upholsterers; the metal edging of coffins, which is also called coffin-tyre.
5. A pinafore or apron to protect the dress; also (perh. better) written tier: see tier n.2 4. U.S.
1846Worcester, Tire..attire, a child's apron. See Tier. 1849Lowell Biglow P. Ser. i. Introd., The humble school⁓house..Where well-drilled urchins, each behind his tire, Waited in ranks the wished command to fire. 1864Webster, Tire, a child's apron,..a tier. 1867O. W. Holmes Guard. Angel iii, The child untied her little ‘tire’, got down from the table. 1883E. C. Rollins New Eng. Bygones 136 This humble serving woman..in her homespun tyre, filled with wild herbs and roots.
6. attrib. and Comb. (in sense 2; Obs. or arch.): tire-glass, a dressing-glass, toilet-glass; † tire-house, the wardrobe of a theatre; also = tiring-house; tire-maid = tire-woman; † tire-maker, a head-dress-maker; † tire-man, (a) a man in charge of the costumes at a theatre; (b) a man who assists at the toilet; a dresser or valet; also, a tailor; † tire-pin, a pin used in the toilet; tire-room, a dressing-room, tiring-room.
1844Mrs. Browning Duchess May xxxv, In her *tire-glass gazed she.
c1620Songs Lond. Prentices (Percy Soc.) 96 To the *tire-howse broke they in, Which some began to plunder.
1871Rossetti Dante at Verona xiv, *Tire-maids hidden among these Drew close their loosened bodices.
1611Rich Honest. Age (Percy Soc.) 18 Shee holdeth on her way..to the *Tyre makers shoppe. 1611Cotgr., Perruquiere, a Tyre-maker, or Attire-maker; a woman that makes Perri⁓wigs, or Attires.
1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. Induct., To have his presence in the tiring-house..[to] curse the poor *tireman. 1711Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) I. 84 Neither the magistrate, nor the tire-men themselves, cou'd resolve, which of the various modes was the exact true-one.
a1450Knt. de la Tour (1906) 63 The settinge of her *tyre pynnes and array.
1681Religio Clerici 52 Strip it naked of its plain English, and send it to be drest in their *Tire-room. 1855Browning Bp. Blougram's Apol. 70 Then going in the tire-room afterward, Because the play was done, to shift himself.
▪ II. tire, n.2|taɪə(r)|
Forms: 5, 7, 9 tyre, (8–9 tier), 7– tire. See also tyre.
[Probably the same word as prec., the tire being originally (sense 1) the ‘attire’, ‘clothing’, or ‘accoutrement’ of the wheel. From 15th to 17th c. spelt (like prec.) tire and tyre indifferently. Before 1700 tyre became generally obsolete, and tire remained as the regular form, as it still does in America; but in Great Britain tyre was revived in the nineteenth cent. as the popular term for the rubber rim of bicycle, tricycle, carriage, or motor-car wheels, and is sometimes used for the steel tires of locomotive wheels. During the twentieth cent. tyre became standard in the British Isles.]
†1. collective sing. The curved pieces of iron plate, called strakes or streaks, placed end to end or overlapping, with which cart and carriage wheels were formerly shod (now rarely used, and only for heavy agricultural vehicles, artillery carriages, etc.).
1485in Ripon Ch. Acts (Surtees) 373, j tyre pro rota plaustri. 1601Holland Pliny xxxiv. xiv. (1634) II. 514 Yron..such as will not serue one whit for stroke [= strake] and naile to bind cart-wheels withall, which tire indeed would be made of the other that is gentle and pliable. 1624Althorp MS. in Simpkinson Washingtons (1860) App. p. lvii, For a new tire for a waine. 1662Act 14 Chas. II, c. 6 §8 Any Waggon Wayne Cart or Carriage..the Wheeles whereof are lesse in breadth then foure Inches in the Tyre. 1753Scots Mag. Nov. 540/1 Unless the wheels and tire of such carriages were made broader. 1769[see tire-smith in 3]. 1803Wellington in Gurw. Desp. (1837) I. 580, I wait only for some iron..to put Tires on some new wheels which I have made. 1827Meaden Patent Specif. No. 5574, I do not claim..binding them with concave iron tires in streaks or separate plates.
2. a. A rim of metal encompassing the wheel of a vehicle, consisting of a continuous circular hoop of iron or steel.
1782Newcome Patent Specif. No. 1320 The main or out⁓side rim or tire consists of one whole sound ring. 1787Brodie Patent Specif. No. 1599 The tier is then heated a black red and put on the wheel. 1827Meaden Patent Specif. No. 5574 My improvements on wheels for carriages consist in binding them with an iron hoop tire having its internal surface concave. 1831Youatt Horse 436 A strong circular frame of wood..is bound together by a hoop, or several hoops of iron, called tires. 1843Penny Cycl. XXVII. 317/2 The introduction of solid or hoop tires is an immense improvement. 1845Thomson Patent Specif. No. 10990, I claim..the application of elastic bearings round the tire of carriage wheels. 1858O. W. Holmes Aut. Breakf.-t. vi, You couldn't pry that out of a Boston man if you had the tire of all creation straightened out for a crowbar. 1860Piesse Lab. Chem. Wonders 122 The tires of wheels previously to their being fixed are made hot. 1862Fraser's Mag. Nov. 634 Specimens of tires for locomotive engines..made with⁓out a weld. 1886Hall Caine Son of Hagar ii. xi, The tires of the wheels were still crusted with unmelted snow. [Note. Thomson's patent (quot. 1845 above) is known as the foundation of the pneumatic tire or tyre (2 b), and was largely cited in the great actions for infringement during the ‘tyre boom’. T. did not actually use the expression ‘elastic tire’ or ‘tyre’, but spoke of an ‘elastic band’ around the (iron) tire. This ‘band’ was however exactly what is now termed a ‘pneumatic tyre’—a distended inner tube with an outer cover or jacket. (H. V. Hopwood, Dep. Librarian, Patent Office Lib.)] b. An endless cushion of rubber, solid, hollow, or tubular, fitted (usually in combination with an inner tube filled with compressed air: cf. pneumatic 1 b) on the rim of a bicycle, tricycle, or motor-car; now also often upon the wheels of invalid and baby-carriages, and light horse vehicles. In this sense now commonly spelt tyre in Great Britain (see tyre); tire is retained in America.
1877Knight Dict. Mech. III. 2579 At the same time Mr. Dunlop patented a tire of annealed cast-iron, grooved to receive an india-rubber band. Various other patents followed, embracing india-rubber as a material to be used in constructing tires. 1887Bury & Hillier Cycling 63 The iron tire was necessarily incompatible with the light iron wheel; rubber tires were introduced. 1905[see tire-cover in 3]. 1910Encycl. Brit. VII. 683/1 Rubber tires, in place of iron ones, appeared in 1868. 1911Webster, Tire...4. Commonly spelt tyre in British usage... The pneumatic tire for a bicycle or automobile serves primarily to reduce vibration or shock.
3. attrib. and Comb., as tire-cover, tire-cutter, tire-maker, tire pressure, tire repair, tire-smith, tire track; tire-bender, a machine in which tires are rolled to a uniform curve (Knight Dict. Mech. 1877); tire-bolt, a bolt used in securing the tire to the felloes (Cassell's Encycl. Dict. 1888); tire-cement, cement for fixing or repairing rubber tires; tire chain, a metal chain designed to be attached to the tyre of a motor vehicle to prevent skidding on snow or ice; tire-drill, a drill adapted to hold and perforate metal tires (Knight); tire-heater, a furnace for heating metal tires (Ibid.); tire-iron, one of the strakes forming the tire of a wheel (see sense 1); also (N. Amer.), a length of steel flattened at one end, used as a lever for removing tyres from wheel-rims; tire-measurer, a measure for ascertaining the length of the tire required by a wheel (Knight); tire-press, a hydraulic press in which the tires of railway wheels are forced on (Ibid.); tire-roller, a mill in which tires for railway wheels are rolled to develop the flanges, etc. (Ibid.); tire-screw = tire-bolt (Cent. Dict. Suppl.); tire-setter, a machine for forcing cart and carriage wheel tires into position and compressing them on the wheel (Cent. Dict.); tire-shrinker, a machine for compressing a heated tire lengthways to decrease the circumference (Knight); tire-upsetting-machine (see quot.). See also under tyre.
1894S. R. Bottone Electr. Instr. Making (ed. 6) 33 When quite dry and set firm, the surface..should be painted over with ‘bicycle *tire cement’.
1917T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Spring & Summer 282 Every car owner should carry a pair of *tire chains. 1980‘E. McBain’ Ghosts ii. 20 Carella could hear the sounds of tire chains jangling.
1905Times 1 Aug. 14/1 With tire and *tire-cover gone, ten miles away from a garage..Crœsus..is in as lame a case as the man of modest means.
1897Outing (U.S.) XXX. 213/1 These formidable *tire-cutters [clam-shells] lie along the coastal roads like dead leaves in a windrow.
1852Mundy Our Antipodes (1857) 32 Our carriages trundled on the nails of their new *tire-irons into Blackheath. 1952R. Ellison Invisible Man xxv. 426 You could hear that gun striking that ole shield like somebody dropping tire irons out a twelve-story window. 1976Globe & Mail (Toronto) 16 Feb. 10/1 Two 19-year old brothers have been arrested after a man, his wife and son were assaulted with tire irons in a Towers Department Store parking lot.
1920T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Spring & Summer 224 *Tire pressure gauge. Accurate and reliable for correct air pressure.
1895Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 556/3 Pneumatic *tire repair outfit. 1975J. Grady Shadow of Condor viii. 128 The man..stowed the tire-repair items..in the trunk.
1769Public Advertiser 6 June 3/2 A Coachmaker's or *Tiresmith's Tool for..wrenching the Tire off wheels.
1947E. S. Gardner in Amer. Mag. Aug. 150/3 Mason, studying the *tire tracks, said, ‘It was an automobile and a horse trailer.’ 1973T. Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow i. 113 The Dutch resistance will then ‘raid’ this site, making a lot of commotion, faking in tire-tracks and detailing the litter of hasty departure.
1877Knight Dict. Mech., *Tire-up-setting Machine, a machine for shrinking tires without cutting.
▪ III. † tire, n.3 Obs.
Also 6–7 tyre.
[ad. F. tir in sense ‘shot, volley’, verbal n. from tirer to draw, to shoot (Roland, 11th c.) = Prov., Sp., Pg. tirar, It. tirare:—Common Romanic *tīrāre: see tire v.2]
The simultaneous discharge of a battery of ordnance; a volley or broadside. Also transf. of thunder.
(Collective pl., esp. after numeral, tire.)
1575Ld. Grey in Comm. Serv. & Charges (Camden) 20 They guave us vij or viij sutche terryble tyres of batterie as tooke cleane awaye from us the top of owre vammure. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. (1807) IV. 213 Before that two tires of the artillerie had gone off, they within offered to parlee. 1593Peele Ord. Garter Wks. (Rtldg.) 586/1 Ordnance pealing in mine ears, As twenty thousand tire had play'd at sea. 1598Florio, Salua..a volie or tire off ordinance. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xii. §92 Discharging sundry tire and peales of Thunder. 1667Milton P.L. vi. 605 In posture to displode thir second tire Of Thunder. 1687Dryden Hind & P. iii. 317 The foe discharges every tire around.
▪ IV. † tire, n.4 Obs. rare.
In 6 tyre.
[f. tire v.2 2.]
A tough morsel given to a hawk: see tiring vbl. n.2
1589Greene Menaphon (Arb.) 67 For all she hath let you flie like a Hawke that hath lost hir tyre.
▪ V. tire, n.5 dial. and colloq.|taɪə(r)|
[From tire v.1]
1. Tiredness, fatigue.
1859F. E. Paget Curate of Cumberworth 86 The settee which was adding discomfort to his tire. 1891A. Matthews Poems & Songs 60, I clean forgot my tire and pain. 1896Kipling Seven Seas, M'Andrew's Hymn, Sick, sick, wi' doubt an' tire. [1904in Eng. Dial. Dict. from Scotld. to Devon.]
2. pl. tires: see quot.
1855Dunglison Med. Lex. (ed. 12), Milk Sickness, Sick stomach, Swamp sickness, Tires, Slows... A disease occasionally observed in..Alabama, Indiana, and Kentucky, which affects both man and cattle, but chiefly the latter... Owing to the tremors that characterize it in animals, it is called the Trembles. 1899in Syd. Soc. Lex.
▪ VI. † tire, n.6 Obs.
[? a. F. tire, from tirer to draw, pull: see tire v.2]
In ribbon-weaving: A cord which pulls the high-lisses (lisse n.2) up.
1759Gentl. Mag. 517 Description of a new invented machine for drawing the tire in a ribbon loom. Ibid., The tumblers that draw the tire moving with their upper ends in the rake. Ibid., A ribbon that requires tire may be work'd as a plain course, there being no loss of time required in the tire's draught. 1766Croker, etc. Dict. Arts s.v. Ribband, 4. The tires, or the riding cords, which run on the pullies, and pull up the high-lisses... 25. The tumblers, or pullies, to which the tires are tied, to clear the course of cords through the high lisses... 27. The tire-board.
▪ VII. † tire, tyre, n.7
Variant of tear n.3 b, the finest fibre of flax, etc.
1601Holland Pliny xxxvii. iii. II. 608 They will burne..more cleare than weekes or matches made of the very tire and best of flax. 1790Churchw. Acc. W. Hoathly, Sussex 27 Feb., Dame Steles wants some tyre—Allowed ½ dozen 7d. 1875Sussex Gloss., Tire, flax for spinning. (Probably obsolete, but frequently found in old parochial accounts.)
▪ VIII. tire, v.1|taɪə(r)|
Forms: α. 1 tiorian, teorian, 2 teorien; 5 tere. β. 1 (late) (ᵹe)tyrian; (2–3 (a)tieren); 5 tyere, Sc. tyr, 5–8 tyre, 6 tyar, Sc. tyir, 6–7 tyer, tier, 6– tire.
[OE. tíorian, téorian (also with short io, eo (Sievers); in comb. ᵹetíorian, ᵹetéorian; with umlaut (late) ᵹetýrian), also a-téorian, with umlaut a-tíerian, a-térian; also vbl. n. tiurung ‘lassitudo’ (Gallée), and ᵹetéorung. As this vb. does not appear in the cognate langs., it is difficult to determine its original form in OE., and the phonetic relations between the OE. and ME. forms, esp. the origin and history of the current form tire († tyre), which appears first in Scottish writers in the 15th c.
Prof. Sievers thinks that the various OE. and ME. forms may be explained by the existence of an OE. *tíran trans., beside tíorian (tiorian) intr., both formed from an OTeut. verbal root *terh-; the sound-relations being similar to those between OE. fíras and feorh, féores (feores), from root *ferhw-.]
I. intr.
†1. To fail, cease (as a supply, etc.); to diminish, give out, come to an end. Obs.
c725Corpus Gloss. (O.E.T.) 668 Desisse, tiorade [c 1050 in Wr.-Wülcker 385/9 teorode]. a1000Ord. Dunsætas c. 4 heading, Be ðone ðe lad teorie. a1000Ags. Ps. (Th.) cxviii[i]. 82 Eaᵹan me swylce eac teoredon. 11..Soul & Body in Phillipps Fragm. ælfric's Gramm. etc. (1838) 5 Him trukeþ his iwit, him teoreþ his miht. [c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 29 Vnwreste þu best ȝef þu wreche ne secst..ȝief mihte þe ne atiereð.]
2. To become weak or exhausted from exertion; to have one's strength reduced or worn out by toil or labour; to become fatigued.
c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 16 Ᵹif mon on langum weᵹe teoriᵹe. c1470Henry Wallace ix. 1771 The Scottis hors mony began to tyr [rime fyr]. c1470Golagros & Gaw. 34 Tuglit and travalit thus trew men can [= did] tyre. c1480Henryson Test. Cres. (ed. 1593) 516 To beir his Scheild his Breist began to tyre. 1587L. Mascall Govt. Cattle, Horses (1627) 178 Lap it about his bit,..and then bridle him, and ride him, and he wil not lightly tyer. 1588Shakes. L.L.L. ii. i. 120 Your wit's too hot, it speeds too fast, 'twill tire. 1593― Rich. II, ii. i. 36. 1599 Porter Angry Woman Abingd. (Percy Soc.) 41 A swift horse will tier, but he that trottes easilie will indure. 1611Shakes. Wint. T. iv. iii. 135 A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tyres in a Mile-a. 1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 230 His horses so tiring, that the servants were fain to carry the baggage themselves. 1716Lady M. W. Montagu Lett. 16 Aug., Our horses tired at Stamel, three hours from [Cologne]. 1845J. Coulter Adv. Pacific xiii. 169 They tire—others supply their places.
3. To have one's appreciation, power of attention, or patience exhausted by excess; to become or be weary or sick of, to ‘have enough’ of.
1500–20Dunbar Poems lxvi. 94 Of this fals failȝeand warld I tyre. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. xxi. xi. (S.T.S.) I. 307 The quenis grace tyrit of him and pairtit witht him. a1584Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 99 Quha wald haue tyrit to heir that tune. 1763Goldsm. Misc. Wks. (1837) II. 484 Unwearied himself, he supposed his readers could never tire. 1803Edwin III. iv. 60 His tongue spoke of nothing but the field, and his ear tired with any other theme. 1819Scott Bl. Dwarf xviii, Mareschal..tired of the country, went abroad, served three campaigns, came home. 1857Ruskin Pol. Econ. Art 54 You will never tire of looking at it. 1897Century Mag. Feb. 623/2 [The squirrel] would grasp one of my fingers with his two paws, and lick it till he tired.
4. To become weary with waiting for something; to ‘weary’ or long for. Sc. ? Obs.
1801B. Maxwell in G. Ewing Mem. B. Ewing (1829) 41, I really tire for your letters. 1827Isab. Campbell in Mem. viii. (1829) 247, I tire much for this—I long to be completely conformed to the image of Jesus.
II. trans.
5. To wear down or exhaust the strength of by exertion; to fatigue, weary (by either mental or physical exercise). Also absol.
a1000Ags. Ps. (Th.) cxli[i]. 3 Ᵹif mine grame þenceað gast teorian. a1400–50Alexander 1009 All þe ȝeris of oure ȝouthe es ȝare syne passid And we for-traualid & terid [Dubl. MS. for-tyred]. Ibid. 1404 (Dubl. MS.) It wald tere ony tong hys tournays to reken. 1470–85Malory Arthur xv. v. 661 The whyte knyghtes helde them nyghe about syr launcelot for to tyere hym and wynde hym. 1500–20Dunbar Poems lxxix. 7 For rekkyning of my rentis and roumes, Ȝe neid nocht for to tyre ȝour thowmes. 1530Palsgr. 758/1, I tyer a horse, I make him that he can go no farther. 1588Shakes. L.L.L. iv. iii. 307 Motion and long during action tyres The sinnowy vigour of the trauailer. c1590Marlowe Faust. i. i. 61 Here, Faustus, tire thy brains to gain a deity. 1621T. Williamson tr. Goulart's Wise Vieillard 50 Not tyring himselfe, and spending his spirits with much labour and studie. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 177 The Tigre is..not long Nimble, Three Leaps Tiring him. 1749Berkeley Word to the Wise Wks. III. 444 The same work tires, but different works relieve. 1845J. Coulter Adv. Pacific ix. 111 Being well tired by my day's march, and excitement, I lay down..and slept soundly until daylight. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 338 They would rather not tire themselves by thinking about possibilities.
6. To weary or exhaust the patience, interest, or appreciation of (a person, etc.) by long continuance, sameness, or want of interest; to satiate, make sick of something; to bore. Also absol.
1500–20Dunbar Poems xvi. 17 Sum is for gift sa lang requyrd Quhill that the crevar be so tyrd That, or the gift deliuerit be The thank is frustrat and expyrd. 1599Shakes. Much Ado i. i. 309 Thou wilt..tire the hearer with a booke of words. 1692Locke Toleration ii. Wks. 1727 II. 288, I am tired to follow you so often round the same Circle. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) VII. 104, I hope I have not tired your Lordship with my long tale. 1874L. Stephen Hours in Library (1892) I. i. 39 He cannot tire us with details, for all the details of such a story are interesting.
b. fig. To exhaust (another's patience, bounty, efforts, etc.); to wear out, spend (time) (obs.).
1589Greene Menaphon (Arb.) 46 To trie our wittes, and tire our time. c1600Distracted Emperor in Bullen O. Pl. III. 169 My constant industry shall tyer the day And out⁓watche night. 1601Sir W. Cornwallis Ess. ii. li. (1631) 326 Hee hath tyred his purse before hee can overtake the fashion. 1613Beaum. & Fl. Coxcomb i. i, To tire anothers bounty, And let mine own grow lusty. 1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 181 After he had tyred out a few more minutes with impatience. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 597 Till tiring all his Arts, he turns agen To his true Shape. 1788Sheridan in Sheridaniana (1826) 101 Others tired the chairs in the parlours. 1902Gosse in Daily Chron. 13 Mar. 3/1 The great artist, who had seemed..to have tired his pen a little.
7. With extension. to tire out, tire to death, to tire to utter exhaustion. colloq. to tire down, to exhaust (a hunted animal) by persistent pursuit: cf. to run down (run v. 73 h).
1563–87Foxe A. & M. (K.O.), Tire him out. 1632Sanderson Serm. 39 They would quickely tyre out them⁓selues without spurring. 1711Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) III. 246 The King being then tired out by factious People. 1740tr. De Mouhy's Fort. Country-Maid (1741) I. 206 He was tired to Death, altho' they used their Endeavours..to amuse him agreeably. 1766H. Walpole in Lett. C'tess Suffolk (1824) II. 324, I am tired to death of the place. 1835W. Irving Tour Prairies xviii, A pack of..wolves..were in full chase of a buck, which they had nearly tired down. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xvii. IV. 1 William, tired out by the voyage,..determined to land in an open boat.
Hence ˈtiring vbl. n. and ppl. a., wearying, fatiguing; ˈtiringly adv., in a tiring manner, to a wearisome degree.
1588Shakes. Tit. A. v. ii. 24 Witnesse the tyring day, and heauie night. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 220 The politicke tyring of the strong forces of Bajazet, was the safe⁓gard of his own. a1774Goldsm. tr. Scarron's Com. Romance (1775) I. 132 This accomplished courtier being tired with tiring of them. 1869Princess Alice Mem. 1 June (1884) 215 It is always so tiring to see things at Berlin. 1894E. Fawcett New Nero xx. 219 ‘It's a trifle tyrannical, is it not?’ ‘Yes; amusingly so.’ ‘Never tiringly so.’
▪ IX. tire, v.2 arch.|taɪə(r)|
Also 4–7 tyre, 6–7 tyer, 7 tier.
[a. F. tire-r = Prov., Sp., Pg. tirar, It. tirare:—Com. Romanic *tīrāre to draw, etc., of uncertain origin. (Hatz.-Darm. rejects the derivation from Teut. tairan, OLG. teren, conjectured by Diez.)]
I.
†1. intr. and trans. To draw, pull, tug. Obs.
a1300Floriz & Bl. 736 Floriz forþ his nekke bed And blauncheflur wiþ draȝe him ȝet. Blauncheflur bid forþ hire suere And floriz aȝen hire gan tire. 14..Beryn 2565 Stillith ȝewe..for howe so evir yee tire, More þen my power yee owȝte nat desire. 1580Lyly Euphues To Gentl. Schollers Oxf. (Arb.) 207 Sending me into the Countrie to nurse, where I tyred at a drie breast three yeares, and was at the last inforced to weane my selfe.
II.
2. Falconry. intr. Of a hawk: To pull or tear with the beak at a tough morsel given to it that it may exercise itself in this way; also, to tear flesh in feeding, as a hawk or other bird of prey. Const. on, upon. (So OF. tirer.) ? arch. or Obs.
c1220Bestiary 438 He billeð one ðe foxes fel.. and he tireð on his ket. c1374Chaucer Boeth. iii. met. xii. 84 (Camb. MS.) The fowl þat hihte voltor..is so fulfyld of his song þat it nil etin ne tyren no more. c1450Bk. Hawkyng in Rel. Ant. I. 296 Loke that thy hawke tire every other day while she is fleyng, for nothyng..woll clense a hawkes hedde as tyryng. 1486Bk. St. Albans C viij, An hawke..tyrith vppon Rumppys, she fedith on all maner of flesh. 1558T. Phaer æneid vi. R ij, A gastly Gripe, that euermore his growing guttes outdrawes, And tiring tearith furth his euerduring liuer vaines. 1612Davies Why Ireland, etc. (1787) 59 An eagle, with three eglets tiring on her breast, and the fourth picking at one of her eyes. 1737Ozell Rabelais i. xli. I. 319 As the Falconers, before they feed their Hawks, do make them tire at a Hen's Leg, to purge their Brains of Phlegm.
b. transf. of persons. To feed greedily upon.
1598Dallington Meth. Trav. G ij, The Kitchin Doctor gaue his patient the necke and bones to tyre vpon, and kept the wings himselfe. 1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe (1871) 58 The stall fed foreman..was grown as fat as an ox with tiring on the sirloins. Ibid. 86. a 1629 Hinde J. Bruen viii. (1641) 29 Rob wife and children of their meanes..and oftentimes tyre upon the carkasses.
†c. fig. To prey upon. Obs.
1581T. Howell Deuises (1879) 208 Your loue the Grype that tyers vpon your harte. 1594Marlowe & Nashe Dido v. ii, The grief that tires upon thine inward soul. 1610Histrio-m. v. 136 O, how this vulture (vile Ambition) Tyers on the heart of greatnesse. 1624Bp. Hall True Peace-maker Wks. 539 Is there any of you..whose heart is daily tyr'd upon by the vultur of his secret guiltinesse?
d. To exercise oneself upon (in thought or action).
1607Shakes. Timon iii. vi. 4 Vpon that were my thoughts tyring when wee encountred. 1611― Cymb. iii. iv. 96 When thou shalt be disedg'd by her That now thou tyrest on.
†3. trans. To tear at, tear, pluck. Obs. rare.
c1374Chaucer Troylus i. 787 Whos stomak foughles tiren [v.r. tyren] euere mo.
†b. (causal.) To cause (a hawk) to ‘tire’. In quot. transf. Obs.
1594? Greene Selimus Wks. (Grosart) XIV. 217 Like a lion fierce, Tiring his stomacke on a flocke of lambes.
▪ X. tire, v.3|taɪə(r)|
Also 4–7 tyre, 6 tyer, tyere, tier.
[Aphetic form of attire v.1; but in sense 1 perh. a. F. se tirer.]
†1. refl. To put oneself in order to do something; to get ready; also, to get ready to go somewhere; to take one's way, go. Cf. attire v.1 1, 2; dress v. 6, 15. Obs.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 274 To Dunbar þei þam drowe, þe sege þer to sette, Þei tirede þam to kest smertly to þe assaute. c1400Destr. Troy 2778 We may tyre vs with truthe to tene hom agayne. Ibid. 3625 With a nauy full nobill, naite for þe werre, We shall tyre vs to Troy tomly to gedur.
2. trans.
†a. To equip; to fit out with arms, accoutrements, etc.; to arm; = attire v.1 3 a.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 151 His folk armed & tired, & ay redy to fight. a1400–50Alexander 3603 Thretty tulkis in ilk toure tired in platis. c1400Laud Troy Bk. 984 He toke his armure and tyred him swythe.
†b. To attire, clothe duly, dress, adorn; = attire v.1 3 b. Obs.
c1350Will. Palerne 263 A gret lord þat gayly is tyred. Ibid. 4478 To tire him in his wedes. a1400Libeaus Desc. (Kaluza) 891 In a robe of samite Anoon sche gan her tire. 1526Tindale 1 Pet. iii. 5 After this manner in the olde tyme did the wholy wemen which trusted in god tyre them selves. 1589Greene Menaphon (Arb.) 76 But am not I a Gentleman, though tirde in a shepheardes skincote? 1602Marston Antonio's Rev. v. iii, Slinke to my chamber then, and tyre thee. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), To Tire, to dress.
c. To dress (the hair or head), esp. with a tire or head-dress (tire n.1 3); = attire v.1 3 c. arch.
1539Bible (Great) 2 Kings ix. 30 Iezabel..starched her face, and tired her heed, and looked out at a window. 1594Carew Tasso (1881) 74 With lockes of wrythed snakes some tire their pates. 1603Eng. Mourning Garment in Select. fr. Harl. Misc. (1793) 208 She never could abide to gaze in a mirror, or looking-glass; no not to behold one, while her head was tyred and adorned. 1907Daily Chron. 8 Aug. 4/4 With her flaxen hair tired in Greek fashion.
3. To plaster or decorate (a building). Now dial.
a1400–50Alexander 5644 Off tried topaces & trewe tyrid was þe wawes. c1400Destr. Troy 8751 This tabernacle tristy was tyrit on hegh. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. xiv. (Roxb.) 19/1 To mixt haire and Lyme together to make plaster, or straw and clay together for the tyreing of the inside of thatched houses. 1904in Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v., (Somerset) I suppose you was all day yesterday tiring the church?
†4. spec. To prepare or dress (an egg) as food.
1486Bk. St. Albans F vij b, An Egge Tyred. 1513Bk. of Keruynge in Babees Bk. (1868) 265 Termes of a Keruer... Tyere that egge. 1530Palsgr. 758/1, I tyer an egge... Let me se who can best tyer this egge. 1542Boorde Dyetary xii. (1870) 265 That they [eggs] be tyred with a lytell salte and suger. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 78 Tire that Egg.
▪ XI. tire, v.4|taɪə(r)|
[f. tire n.2]
trans. To furnish (a wheel or vehicle) with a tire or tires: see tired ppl. a.2, tiring vbl. n.4 See also tyre v.
1891Cent. Dict., Tire, to put a tire upon, as to tire a wheel or a wagon.
▪ XII. tire
obs. f. teer v., tier n.1, tyre. |