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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tire \Tire\, noun [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 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. [1913 Webster +PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tire \Tire\, verb (used with an object) To adorn; to attire; to dress. [Obs.]
[Jezebel] painted her face, and tired her head. --2 Kings ix. 30.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tire \Tire\, noun A tier, row, or rank. See {Tier}. [Obs.]
In posture to displode their second tire Of thunder. --Milton.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tire \Tire\, verb (used without an object) [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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tire \Tire\, verb (used without an object) [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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tire \Tire\, verb (used with an object) 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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tier \Ti"er\, noun [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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
tire
noun: hoop that covers a wheel; "automobile tires are usually made of rubber and filled with compressed air" [syn: {tyre}]
verb
1: get tired of something or somebody [syn: {pall}, {weary}, {fatigue}, {jade}]
2: exhaust or tire through 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"; "We quickly played out our strength" [syn: {run down}, {exhaust}, {play out}, {sap}]
4: cause to be bored [syn: {bore}] [ant: {interest}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
142 Moby Thesaurus words for "tire": annoy, apparel, array, attire, balloon tire, be infinitely repetitive, be tedious, beat, bedeck, bedrape, belted bias tire, belted radial tire, bias tire, blow, bore, bother, break down, bundle up, burden, burn out, clothe, collapse, crack up, crush one, debilitate, deck, dight, disgust, do in, do up, drag on, drain, drape, dress, droop, drop, dud, enclothe, endue, enervate, enfeeble, ennui, enrobe, enshroud, envelop, enwrap, exasperate, exhaust, exhaustion, fag, fag out, faint, fatigue, felly, flag, frazzle, garb, garment, gasp, get tired, give out, glut, go on forever, grow weary, habilitate, harass, haunt, haunt the memory, invest, irk, irritate, jade, knock out, knock up, lap, lassitude, muffle up, nauseate, nonskid tire, obsess, oppress, overfatigue, overstrain, overtire, overweary, pall, pant, peter out, play out, pneumatic tire, poop, poop out, prey on, prostrate, prostration, puff, puff and blow, radial tire, rag out, raiment, retread, retreaded tire, rim, robe, run down, run out, safety tire, sap, satiate, sheathe, shroud, sicken, sink, snow tire, studded tire, succumb, swaddle, swathe, tire out, tire to death, tiredness, tubeless tire, tucker, use up, weaken, wear, wear down, wear on, wear out, wear upon one, weariness, weary, weigh upon, weight down, wheeze, white sidewall tire, wilt, wind, winter tire, worn-out, wrap, wrap up
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