QUIRE
Quire, n.
Defn: See Choir. [Obs.] Spenser.
A quire of such enticing birds. Shak.
QUIRE
Quire, v. i.
Defn: To sing in concert. [R.] Shak.
QUIRE Quire, n. Etym: [OE. quaer, quair, OF. quayer, cayer, caïer, F. cahier, a book of loose sheets, a quarter of a quire, LL. quaternus, quaternum, sheets of paper packed together, properly, four together, fr. L. quaterni four each, by fours, quattuor, four. See Four and cf. Cahier.]
Defn: 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.
QUIRINAL
Quir"i*nal, a. [L. Quirinals, fr. Quirinus, a name of Romulus.]
Defn: Of, pertaining to, or designating, the hill Collis Quirinalis, now Monte Quirinale (one of the seven hills of Rome), or a modern royal place situated upon it. Also used substantively.
QUIRISTER
Quir"is*ter, n. Etym: [See Quire, Chorister.]
Defn: A chorister. See Chorister. [R.] Thomson.