quire

quire is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

Definitions

  1. 1.See Choir. [Obs.] Spenser. A quire of such enticing birds. Shak.
  2. 2.To sing in concert. [R.] Shak.
  3. 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.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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