[f. QUIRE sb.1] trans. To arrange in quires. Hence Quired ppl. a.

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1683.  Moxon, Mech. Exerc., Printing, xxii. ¶ 4. If they be Quir’d Sheets, that is, two, three, or four Sheets Quir’d together. Ibid., xxv. ¶ 4. The Backs of the Quired Books.

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1688.  R. Holme, Armoury, III. 124/1. The number of Sheets Quired one in the other.

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1875.  Southward, Dict. Typogr., 117. Quired. Two sheets so imposed as when folded and made up will lie one within the other.

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  Quire v.2, to sing: see CHOIR v.

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