Quire
[kwaɪə] or ['kwaɪɚ]
Definition
(n.) See Choir.
(v. i.) To sing in concert.
(n.) 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.
Typist: Marvin
Definition
n. old form of choir.—n. Quī′rister a chorister.
n. a collection of paper consisting of twenty-four sheets the twentieth part of a ream each having a single fold.—v.t. to fold in quires.
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Examples
- Will you allow me to in-quire wy you make up your bed under that 'ere deal table? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The Count walked to a writing-table near the window, opened his desk, and took from it several quires of paper and a bundle of quill pens. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Other kinds of cutting machines are contrived, by which sheets of writing paper, when collected in quires, are squeezed tightly together, and their edges are smoothly and evenly cut. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The bands of paper then passed on to shears, placed transversely, that cut it into sheets of any required length, which were laid upon one another, to be divided into quires. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
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