Word Meanings - TIRING-HOUSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A tiring-room. Shak.

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• TIRE
  A tier, row, or rank. See Tier. In posture to displode their second tire Of thunder. Milton.
• TIRO
  See TYRO
• TIRING-HOUSE
  A tiring-room. Shak.
• TIRONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Tiro, or a system of shorthand said to have been introduced by him into ancient Rome.
• TIRAILLEUR
  Formerly, a member of an independent body of marksmen in the French army. They were used sometimes in front of the army to annoy the enemy, sometimes in the rear to check his pursuit. The term is now applied to all troops acting as skirmishers.
• TIRE-WOMAN
  1. A lady's maid. Fashionableness of the tire-woman's making. Locke. 2. A dresser in a theater. Simmonds.
• TIREDNESS
  The state of being tired, or weary.
• TIRRIT
  A word from the vocabulary of Mrs. Quickly, the hostess in Shakespeare's Henry IV., probably meaning terror.
• TIRRALIRRA
  A verbal imitation of a musical sound, as of the note of a lark or a horn. The lark, that tirra lyra chants. Shak. "Tirralira, " by the river, Sang Sir Lancelot. Tennyson.
• TIRED
  Weary; fatigued; exhausted.
• TIRMA
  The oyster catcher.
• TIRELESS
  Untiring.
• TIRESOME
  Fitted or tending to tire; exhausted; wearisome; fatiguing; tedious; as, a tiresome journey; a tiresome discourse. -- Tire"some*ly, adv. -- Tire"some*ness, n.
• TIRING-ROOM
  The room or place where players dress for the stage.
• TIRADE
  A declamatory strain or flight of censure or abuse; a rambling invective; an oration or harangue abounding in censorious and bitter language. Here he delivers a violent tirade against persons who profess to know anything about angels. Quarterly
• TIRL
  1. To quiver; to vibrate; to veer about. 2. To make a ratting or clattering sound by twirling or shaking; as, to tirl at the pin, or latch, of a door.
• TIRELING
  Tired; fatigued.
• TIRWIT
  The lapwing.
• UNATTIRE
  To divest of attire; to undress.
• SATIRIST
  One who satirizes; especially, one who writes satire. The mighty satirist, who . . . had spread through the Whig ranks. Macaulay.
• CULTIROSTRES
  A tribe of wading birds including the stork, heron, crane, etc.
• EXTIRPATORY
  Extirpative.
• STIRPS
  Stock; race; family. Blackstone.
• RECTIROSTRAL
  Having a straight beak.
• MULTIRAMOSE
  Having many branches.
• ASTIR
  Stirring; in a state of activity or motion; out of bed.
• SUMMERSTIR
  To summer-fallow.
• LATIROSTRAL; LATIROSTROUS
  Having a broad beak. Sir T. Browne.
• INEXTIRPABLE
  Not capable of being extirpated or rooted out; ineradicable.
• ENTIRELY
  1. In an entire manner; wholly; completely; fully; as, the trace is entirely lost. Euphrates falls not entirely into the Persian Sea. Raleigh. 2. Without alloy or mixture; truly; sincerely. To highest God entirely pray. Spenser.
• RETIRER
  One who retires.
• OVERTIRE
  To tire to excess; to exhaust.
• RETIREMENT
  1. The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer. O, blest Retirement, friend of life's decline. Goldsmith. Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books. Thomson. 2. A place of seclusion