noun
- Archaic a person of authority; man of high rank
- a title of respect used in addressing a king, equivalent to “your majesty”
- Old Poet. a father or forefather
- the male parent of an animal, esp. of a four-legged mammal
Origin:
ME < OFr, a master < L senior: see senior
transitive verb sired, siring
to beget: said esp. of animals