Meaning of squiry | Babel Free

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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