"wyre" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "wyres",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "wire"
        }
      ],
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          "source": "w"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Obsolete spelling of wire"
      ],
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          "wire#English"
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  "word": "wyre"
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    {
      "form": "wyres",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "wyre (plural wyres)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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        {
          "word": "wire"
        }
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        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English words ending in \"-yre\""
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      "examples": [
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Obsolete spelling of wire"
      ],
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  "word": "wyre"
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