the Week of Proper 3 / Ordinary 8
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Tire
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) Attire; apparel.
(2):
(n.) A covering for the head; a headdress.
(3):
(n.) A child's apron, covering the breast and having no sleeves; a pinafore; a tier.
(4):
(n.) A tier, row, or rank. See Tier.
(5):
(n.) Furniture; apparatus; equipment.
(6):
(n.) A hoop or band, as of metal, on the circumference of the wheel of a vehicle, to impart strength and receive the wear.
(7):
(v. t.) To adorn; to attire; to dress.
(8):
(v. i.) To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.
(9):
(v. i.) To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.
(10):
(v. i.) To become weary; to be fatigued; to have the strength fail; to have the patience exhausted; as, a feeble person soon tires.
(11):
(v. t.) 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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Tire'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/t/tire.html. 1828.
