Word Meanings - TIRED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Weary; fatigued; exhausted.
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- TIRE
A tier, row, or rank. See Tier. In posture to displode their second tire Of thunder. Milton. - FAINT
feint, false, faint, F. feint, p.p. of feindre to feign, suppose, 1. Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst. 2. Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed; - TIRO
See TYRO - TIRING-HOUSE
A tiring-room. Shak. - JADEITE
See STONE - EXHAUSTION
An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits. Note: The method of exhaustions was applied to great variety of propositions, pertaining to rectifications - TIRONIAN
Of or pertaining to Tiro, or a system of shorthand said to have been introduced by him into ancient Rome. - FAINTLY
In a faint, weak, or timidmanner. - 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. - EXHAUSTIVE
Serving or tending to exhaust; exhibiting all the facts or arguments; as, an exhaustive method. Ex*haust"ive*ly, adv. - EXHAUSTURE
Exhaustion. Wraxall. - 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. - FATIGUE
1. Weariness from bodily labor or mental exertion; lassitude or exhaustion of strength. 2. The cause of weariness; labor; toil; as, the fatigues of war. Dryden. 3. The weakening of a metal when subjected to repeated vibrations or strains. Fatigue - TIRRIT
A word from the vocabulary of Mrs. Quickly, the hostess in Shakespeare's Henry IV., probably meaning terror. - EXHAUSTLESS
Not be exhausted; inexhaustible; as, an exhaustless fund or store. - 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. - DEBILITATE
To impair the strength of; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to debilitate the body by intemperance. Various ails debilitate the mind. Jenyns. The debilitated frame of Mr. Bertram was exhausted by this last effort. Sir W. Scott. - JADERY
The tricks of a jade. - JADDING
See HOLING - OVERFATIGUE
Excessive fatigue. - 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. - UNWEARY
To cause to cease being weary; to refresh. Dryden. - STIRPS
Stock; race; family. Blackstone. - UNEXHAUSTIBLE
Inexhaustible. - RECTIROSTRAL
Having a straight beak. - INEXHAUSTED
Not exhausted; not emptied; not spent; not having lost all strength or resources; unexhausted. Dryden. - MULTIRAMOSE
Having many branches. - ASTIR
Stirring; in a state of activity or motion; out of bed. - SUMMERSTIR
To summer-fallow.