To tire out, to weary or fatigue to exhaustion; to harass.

Syn. — To jade; weary; exhaust; harass. See Jade.

Tired
(Tired) a. Weary; fatigued; exhausted.

Tiredness
(Tired"ness), n. The state of being tired, or weary.

Tireless
(Tire"less) a. Untiring.

Tireling
(Tire"ling) a. Tired; fatigued. [Obs.]

Tiresome
(Tire"some) a. Fitted or tending to tire; exhausted; wearisome; fatiguing; tedious; as, a tiresome journey; a tiresome discourse.Tire"some*ly, adv.Tire"some*ness, n.

Tire-woman
(Tire"-wom`an) n.; pl. Tire-women [See Tire attire, Attire.]

1. A lady's maid.

Fashionableness of the tire-woman's making.
Locke.

2. A dresser in a theater. Simmonds.

Tiring-house
(Tir"ing-house`) n. [For attiring house.] A tiring-room. [Obs.] Shak.

Tiring-room
(Tir"ing-room`) n. [For attiring room.] The room or place where players dress for the stage.

Tirma
(Tir"ma) n. The oyster catcher. [Prov. Eng.]

Tiro
(Ti"ro) n. [L.] Same as Tyro.

T iron
(T" i`ron) See under T.

Tironian
(Ti*ro"ni*an) a. [L. Tironianus, fr. Tiro, the learned freedman and amanuensis of Cicero.] Of or pertaining to Tiro, or a system of shorthand said to have been introduced by him into ancient Rome.

Tirralirra
(Tir"ra*lir`ra) n. A verbal imitation of a musical sound, as of the note of a lark or a horn.

The lark, that tirra lyra chants.
Shak.

"Tirralira, " by the river,
Sang Sir Lancelot.
Tennyson.

Tirrit
(Tir"rit) n. A word from the vocabulary of Mrs. Quickly, the hostess in Shakespeare's Henry IV., probably meaning terror.

Tirwit
(Tir"wit) n. [Cf. Pewit.] (Zoöl.) The lapwing. [Prov. Eng.]


('T is) A common contraction of it is.

Tisane
(Ti*sane") n. [F.] (Med.) See Ptisan.

Tisar
(Ti"sar) n. [F. tisard.] (Glass Manuf.) The fireplace at the side of an annealing oven. Knight.

Tire
(Tire), v. t. To exhaust the strength of, as by toil or labor; to exhaust the patience of; to wear out (one's interest, attention, or the like); to weary; to fatigue; to jade. Shak.

Tired with toil, all hopes of safety past.
Dryden.


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