"wyre" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: wyres [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} wyre (plural wyres)
  1. Obsolete spelling of wire. Tags: alt-of, obsolete Alternative form of: wire
    Sense id: en-wyre-en-noun-mZ5CoXze Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "word": "wire"
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          "ref": "1591, Edmund Spenser, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5:",
          "text": "Her long loose yellow locks lyke golden wyre, Sprinckled with perle, and perling flowres atweene, Doe lyke a golden mantle her attyre, 156 And, being crowned with a girland greene, Seem lyke some mayden queene.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "c. 1595, Thomas Nash, The Choise of Valentines:",
          "text": "104 Smock, climbe a-pace, that I maie see my ioyes; Oh heauen and paradize are all but toyes Compar'd with this sight I now behould, Which well might keepe a man from being olde. 108 A prettie rysing wombe without a weame, That shone as bright as anie siluer streame; And bare out like the bending of an hill, At whose decline a fountaine dwelleth still; 112 That hath his mouth besett with uglie bryers, Resembling much a duskie nett of wyres; A loftie buttock, barrd with azure veines, Whose comelie swelling, when my hand distreines, 116 Or wanton checketh with a harmlesse stype, It makes the fruites of loue oftsoone be rype, And pleasure pluckt too tymelie from the stemme To dye ere it hath seene Jerusalem. 120 O Gods! that euer anie thing so sweete, So suddenlie should fade awaie, and fleete!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1667, Samuel Pepys, Diary of Samuel Pepys, May 1667:",
          "text": "Creed and I into the Park, and walked, a most pleasant evening, and so took coach, and took up my wife, and in my way home discovered my trouble to my wife for her white locks, [Randle Holmes says the ladies wore \"false locks set on wyres, to make them stand at a distance from the head,\" and accompanies the information with the figure of a lady \"with a pair of locks and curls which were in great fashion in 1670\" (Planche's \"Cyclopaedia of Costume;\" Vol. i., p. 248).] swearing by God, several times, which I pray God forgive me for, and bending my fist, that I would not endure it.",
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          "text": "Her long loose yellow locks lyke golden wyre, Sprinckled with perle, and perling flowres atweene, Doe lyke a golden mantle her attyre, 156 And, being crowned with a girland greene, Seem lyke some mayden queene.",
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          "ref": "c. 1595, Thomas Nash, The Choise of Valentines:",
          "text": "104 Smock, climbe a-pace, that I maie see my ioyes; Oh heauen and paradize are all but toyes Compar'd with this sight I now behould, Which well might keepe a man from being olde. 108 A prettie rysing wombe without a weame, That shone as bright as anie siluer streame; And bare out like the bending of an hill, At whose decline a fountaine dwelleth still; 112 That hath his mouth besett with uglie bryers, Resembling much a duskie nett of wyres; A loftie buttock, barrd with azure veines, Whose comelie swelling, when my hand distreines, 116 Or wanton checketh with a harmlesse stype, It makes the fruites of loue oftsoone be rype, And pleasure pluckt too tymelie from the stemme To dye ere it hath seene Jerusalem. 120 O Gods! that euer anie thing so sweete, So suddenlie should fade awaie, and fleete!",
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