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▪ I. † vire, n.1 Obs.
Also 4 fyre, 4–6 vyre, 5 Sc. wyr, wyir.
[a. OF. vire (= Prov., Sp., Pg. vira), f. virer to turn.]
A form of quarrel or bolt for a cross-bow. (Cf. vireton.)
1375Barbour Bruce v. 595, I haf a bow, bot and a vyre. Ibid. 623 He tasit the vyre and leit it fle. 1390Gower Conf. I. 164 As a fyre Which fleth out of a myhti bowe, Aweie he fledde for a throwe. c1400Laud Troy Bk. 4802 Thei fauȝt vn-armed in here atyres With longe Arwes and scharpe vires. c1425Cast. Persev. 2113 in Macro Plays (1904) 140, I schal slynge at þee many a vyre, & ben a-vengyd hastely here. c1500Lancelot 1092 The red knycht, byrnyng in loues fyre, Goith to o knycht, als swift as ony vyre. 1513Douglas æneid v. xi. 16 This virgine sprent on swiftlie as a vyre.
▪ II. † vire, n.2 Obs.—1
In 5 wire.
[ad. L. vīrus.]
= virus.
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 77 For euery olde wounde hauynge rotnes or wire, þat is þinne venymous quyttir or ony oþir þing.
▪ III. † vire, v.1 Obs. rare.
Also 5 Sc. wyre, vyre.
[ad. OF. virer to turn: cf. veer v.2]
1. trans. To whirl or throw.
1375Barbour Bruce xvii. 702 Iohne Crab..In his fagattis has set the fyre, And our the wall syne can thame wyre.
2. intr. To turn; to wind about.
1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 119 As the dure turnis about apon the herre,..and vyris and revyris. a1586Sidney Arcadia (1622) 436 No, no, hee hath vired all this while, but to come the sooner to his affected end.
▪ IV. † vire, v.2 Obs. rare—1.
(Origin and meaning doubtful: cf. vire n.1)
c1400Laud Troy Bk. 5448 Many a Gregey was euel atyred, With brode arwes al to-vired; Thei wounded hem with arwes brode.
▪ V. vire
southern dial. var. fire; obs. Sc. f. wire. |