squiry

Definitions

The body of squires, collectively; squirarchy.

obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“It was nedefull for them within to make⟳ good defence, for against them was the floure of chyvalry and squyry.”

The Chronicle of Froissart

“The squiry, too, that mass of base⟳ loggerheads, joined in the resolution to support⟳ the fraud with all their might.”

“Squire: A species of animal belonging to the aldermanic genus. Authors are not exactly agreed what constitutes the generic difference betwixt squireens (the Irish abbreviation for squire), and the next inferior order⟳ of bipeds. The Liverpool squiry are distinguished from the mobility of the town by the former selling a hundred weight and the latter a pound weight of tobacco.”

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