a. (Med.) Good against the rickets. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One opposed to the payment of rent; esp. one of those who in 1840-47 resisted the collection of rents claimed by the patroons from the settlers on certain manorial lands in the State of New York. -- An`ti*rent"ism n. [1913 Webster]

adv. & a. [ Pref. a- + stir. ] Stirring; in a state of activity or motion; out of bed. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Attired p. pr. & vb. n. Attiring. ] [ OE. atiren to array, dispose, arrange, OF. atirier; à (L. ad) + F. tire rank, order, row; of Ger. origin: cf. As. tier row, OHG. ziarī, G. zier, ornament, zieren to adorn. Cf. Tire a headdress. ] To dress; to array; to adorn; esp., to clothe with elegant or splendid garments. [ 1913 Webster ]

Finely attired in a robe of white. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

With the linen miter shall he be attired. Lev. xvi. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Dress; clothes; headdress; anything which dresses or adorns; esp., ornamental clothing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Earth in her rich attire. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

I 'll put myself in poor and mean attire. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Can a maid forget her ornament, or a bride her attire? Jer. ii. 32. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The antlers, or antlers and scalp, of a stag or buck. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) The internal parts of a flower, included within the calyx and the corolla. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. (Her.) Provided with antlers, as a stag. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Attire; adornment. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who attires. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bestirred p. pr. & vb. n. Bestirring. ] To put into brisk or vigorous action; to move with life and vigor; -- usually with the reciprocal pronoun. [ 1913 Webster ]

You have so bestirred your valor. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Cultirostres. ] (Zool.) Having a bill shaped like the colter of a plow, or like a knife, as the heron, stork, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. L. culter colter of a plow, knife + rostrum bill. ] (Zool.) A tribe of wading birds including the stork, heron, crane, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A thick solid-rubber tire, as for a bicycle, with a hollow groove running lengthwise on the inside. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n.; pl. Dentirostres [ NL., fr. L. dens, dentis, tooth + rostrum bill, beak: cf. F. dentirostre. ] (Zool.) A dentirostral bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Having a toothed bill; -- applied to a group of passerine birds, having the bill notched, and feeding chiefly on insects, as the shrikes and vireos. See Illust. (N) under Beak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Dentirostral. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. dis- + attire: cf. OF. desatirier. ] To unrobe; to undress. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. entier, L. integer untouched, undiminished, entire; pref. in-, negative + the root of tangere to touch. See Tangent, and cf. Integer. ] 1. Complete in all parts; undivided; undiminished; whole; full and perfect; not deficient; as, the entire control of a business; entire confidence, ignorance. [ 1913 Webster ]

That ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. James i. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

With strength entire and free will armed. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

One entire and perfect chrysolite. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Without mixture or alloy of anything; unqualified; morally whole; pure; faithful. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pure fear and entire cowardice. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

No man had ever a heart more entire to the king. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) (a) Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla. (b) Having an evenly continuous edge, as a leaf which has no kind of teeth. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Not gelded; -- said of a horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Internal; interior. [ Obs. ] Spenser.

Syn. -- See Whole, and Radical. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Entirely. “Too long to print in entire.” Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Brewing) A name originally given to a kind of beer combining qualities of different kinds of beer. [ Eng. ] “Foker's Entire.” Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. In an entire manner; wholly; completely; fully; as, the trace is entirely lost. [ 1913 Webster ]

Euphrates falls not entirely into the Persian Sea. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Without alloy or mixture; truly; sincerely. [ 1913 Webster ]

To highest God entirely pray. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The state or condition of being entire; completeness; fullness; totality; as, the entireness of an arch or a bridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

This same entireness or completeness. Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Integrity; wholeness of heart; honesty. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Entireness in preaching the gospel. Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Oneness; unity; -- applied to a condition of intimacy or close association. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

True Christian love may be separated from acquaintance, and acquaintance from entireness. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Entireness [ OF. entiereté. Cf. Integrity. ] 1. The state of being entire; completeness; as, entirely of interest. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is entire; the whole. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Designating, made of, or relating to, flour including a considerable part of the bran; whole-wheat. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

v. t. [ Cf. F. extirper. ] To extirpate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

It is impossible to extirp it quite, friar. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being extirpated or eradicated; as, an extirpable plant. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Extirpated p. pr. & vb. n. Extirpating ] [ L. extirpatus, exstirpatus, p. p. of extirpare, exstirpare; ex out + strips stock, stem, root. ] To pluck up by the stem or root; to root out; to eradicate, literally or figuratively; to destroy wholly; as, to extirpate weeds; to extirpate a tumor; to extirpate a sect; to extirpate error or heresy.

Syn. -- To eradicate; root out; destroy; exterminate; annihilate; extinguish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. extirpatio, exstirpatio: cf. F. extirpation. ] The act of extirpating or rooting out, or the state of being extirpated; eradication; excision; total destruction; as, the extirpation of weeds from land, of evil from the heart, of a race of men, of heresy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of rooting out, or tending to root out. Cheyne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. extirpator, exstirpator: cf. F. extirpateur. ] One who extirpates or roots out; a destroyer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Extirpative. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Extirpator. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An iron with a flat, smooth surface for ironing clothes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a sharpshooter (in the French army). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. A headdress. “A headtire of fine linen.” 1 Esdras iii. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The manner of dressing the head, as at a particular time and place. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. inexstirpabilis: cf. F. inextirpable. See In- not, and Extirpate. ] Not capable of being extirpated or rooted out; ineradicable. [ 1913 Webster ]

a., adv. See Entire, a., Entirely, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. L. latus broad + rostrum beak. ] (Zool.) The broad-billed singing birds, such as the swallows, and their allies. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Cf. F. latirostre. See Latirostres. ] (Zool.) Having a broad beak. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Multi- + radiate. ] Having many rays. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Multi- + p. p. of ramify. ] Divided into many branches. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Multi- + ramose. ] Having many branches. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To tire to excess; to exhaust. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To become too tired. Br. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Automobiles) a motor vehicle tire in which the cords run at right angles to the plane of the tire (considered as a disk). [ PJC ]

a. [ Recti- + rostral. ] (Zool.) Having a straight beak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Retirement; -- mostly used in a jocose or burlesque way. [ U.S. ] Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

What one of our great men used to call dignified retiracy. C. A. Bristed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F.; cf. Sp. retirada retreat. See Retire. ] (Fort.) A kind of retrenchment, as in the body of a bastion, which may be disputed inch by inch after the defenses are dismantled. It usually consists of two faces which make a reentering angle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Retired p. pr. & vb. n. Retiring. ] [ F. retirer; pref. re- re- + tirer to draw. See Tirade. ] 1. To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively. [ 1913 Webster ]

He . . . retired himself, his wife, and children into a forest. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

As when the sun is present all the year,
And never doth retire his golden ray. Sir J. Davies. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay; as, to retire bonds; to retire a note. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To cause to retire; specifically, to designate as no longer qualified for active service; to place on the retired list; as, to retire a military or naval officer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To go back or return; to draw back or away; to keep aloof; to withdraw or retreat, as from observation; to go into privacy; as, to retire to his home; to retire from the world, or from notice. [ 1913 Webster ]

To Una back he cast him to retire. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mind contracts herself, and shrinketh in,
And to herself she gladly doth retire. Sir J. Davies. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure; as, to retire from battle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Set Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die. 2 Sam. xi. 15. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To withdraw from a public station, or from business; as, having made a large fortune, he retired. [ 1913 Webster ]

And from Britannia's public posts retire. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To recede; to fall or bend back; as, the shore of the sea retires in bays and gulfs. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To go to bed; as, he usually retires early. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To withdraw; leave; depart; secede; recede; retreat; retrocede. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; also, a place to which one retires. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The battle and the retire of the English succors. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Eve ] discover'd soon the place of her retire. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that they are to retire, or fall back. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Private; secluded; quiet; as, a retired life; a person of retired habits. [ 1913 Webster ]

A retired part of the peninsula. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Withdrawn from active duty or business; as, a retired officer; a retired physician. [ 1913 Webster ]

Retired flank (Fort.), a flank bent inward toward the rear of the work. --
Retired list (Mil. & Naval), a list of officers, who, by reason of advanced age or other disability, are relieved from active service, but still receive a specified amount of pay from the government. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Re*tired"ly, adv. -- Re*tired"ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]