What does "quire" mean?
Quire: See Choir. [Obs.] Spenser. A quire of such enticing birds. Shak.
Additional senses
- 2.To sing in concert. [R.] Shak.
- 3.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.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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