Category:Quire

Quire, n.

Defn: see choir. [obs.] Spenser. A quire of such enticing birds. Shak.

Quire Quire, v. i.

Defn: to sing in concert. [r.] Shak.

Quire Quire, n. Etym: [oe. quaer, quair, of. quayer, cayer, caïer, f. Cahier, a book of loose sheets, a quarter of a quire, ll. quaternus, Quaternum, sheets of paper packed together, properly, four together, Fr. L. quaterni four each, by fours, quattuor, four. See four and cf. Cahier.]

Defn: a collection of twenty-four sheets of paper of the same size And quality, unfolded or having a single fold; one twentieth of a Ream.