Lire Definition

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(UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Flesh, brawn, or muscle; the fleshy part of a person or animal in contradistinction to the bone and skin.

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(UK dialectal, Scotland) The fleshy part of a roast capon, etc. as distinguished from a limb or joint.

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(UK dialectal, Scotland) The cheek.

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(UK dialectal, Scotland) Face; appearance of the face or skin; complexion; hue.

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(UK dialectal, Scotland, Orkney, Shetland, ornithology) The Manx shearwater (bird).
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Origin of Lire

  • From Middle English lire, lyre, from Old English līra (“any fleshy part of the body, muscle, calf of the leg”), from Proto-Germanic *ligwizô, *lihwizô (“thigh, groin”), from Proto-Indo-European *lekʷs-, *lewks- (“groin”). Cognate with Dutch lies (“groin”), Swedish lår (“thigh”).

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  • From Middle English lire, lyre, from Old Norse hlýr (“cheeks”, plural). Compare Middle English lere, from Old English hlēor (“cheek, countenance, complexion”). More at leer.

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  • From Old Norse líri. Cognate with Norwegian lira.

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  • From Italian lire.

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Lire Sentence Examples

  • The Italian treasury at once honored all the papal drafts, and thus contributed a first instalment of the 3,225,000 lire per annum afterwards placed by Article 4 of the Law of Guarantees at the disposal of the Holy See.

  • On the 2gth of June 1881 the Chamber adopted a Franchise Reform Bill, which increased the electorate from oo,ooo to 2,000,000 by lowering the fiscal qualification from 40 to 19.80 lire in direct taxation, and by extending the suffrage to all persons who had passed through the two lower standards of the elementary schools, and practically to all persons able to read and write.

  • His engagement was for a salary of 75 lire (about X30) a month, a sum so large for that period as to mark conspicuously the high regard in which his art was held.

  • He wrote, with papal approval, the letter requesting the Italians to occupy the Leonine city, and obtained from the Italians payment of the Peter's pence (5,000,000 lire) remaining in the papal exchequer, as well as 50,000 scudi - the first and only instalment of the Italian allowance (subsequently fixed by the Law of Guarantees, March 21, 1871) ever accepted by the Holy See.

  • They likewise received a ransom of 160,000 lire for their Pisan prisoners.

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Words Starting With

LLILIR

Words Ending With

EREIRE

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Words Starting With L and Ending With E

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4 Letter Words4 Letter Words Starting With L4 Letter Words Ending With E