Obs. rare. Also 5 Sc. wyre, vyre. [ad. OF. virer to turn: cf. VEER v.2]

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  1.  trans. To whirl or throw.

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1375.  Barbour, Bruce, XVII. 702. Iohne Crab … In his fagattis has set the fyre, And our the wall syne can thame wyre.

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  2.  intr. To turn; to wind about.

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1456.  Sir G. Haye, Law Arms (S.T.S.), 119. As the dure turnis about apon the herre,… and vyris and revyris.

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a. 1586.  Sidney, Arcadia (1622), 436. No, no, hee hath vired all this while, but to come the sooner to his affected end.

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