dial. and colloq. [From TIRE v.1]

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  1.  Tiredness, fatigue.

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1859.  F. E. Paget, Curate of Cumberworth, 86. The settee which was adding discomfort to his tire.

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1891.  A. Matthews, Poems & Songs, 60. I clean forgot my tire and pain.

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1896.  Kipling, Seven Seas, M’Andrew’s Hymn. Sick, sick, wi’ doubt an’ tire.

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[1904.  in Eng. Dial. Dict., from Scotld. to Devon.]

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  2.  pl. Tires: see quot.

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1855.  Dunglison, Med. Lex. (ed. 12), Milk Sickness, Sick stomach, Swamp sickness, Tires, Slows…. A disease occasionally observed in … Alabama, Indiana, and Kentucky, which affects both man and cattle, but chiefly the latter…. Owing to the tremors that characterize it in animals, it is called the Trembles.

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1899.  in Syd. Soc. Lex.

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