Also 4–7 tyre, 6 tyer, tyere, tier. [Aphetic form of ATTIRE v.1; but in sense 1 perh. a. F. se tirer.]
† 1. refl. To put oneself in order to do something; to get ready; also, to get ready to go somewhere; to take one’s way, go. Cf. ATTIRE v.1 1, 2; DRESS v. 6, 15. Obs.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. (1810), 274. To Dunbar þei þam drowe, þe sege þer to sette, Þei tirede þam to kest smertly to þe assaute.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 2778. We may tyre vs with truthe to tene hom agayne. Ibid., 3625. With a nauy full nobill, naite for þe werre, We shall tyre vs to Troy tomly to gedur.
2. trans. † a. To equip; to fit out with arms, accoutrements, etc.; to arm; = ATTIRE v.1 3 a.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. (1810), 151. His folk armed & tired, & ay redy to fight.
a. 1400–50. Alexander, 3603. Thretty tulkis in ilk toure tired in platis.
c. 1400. Laud Troy Bk., 984. He toke his armure and tyred him swythe.
† b. To attire, clothe duly, dress, adorn; = ATTIRE v.1 3 b. Obs.
c. 1350. Will. Palerne, 263. A gret lord þat gayly is tyred. Ibid., 4478. To tire him in his wedes.
a. 1400. Libeaus Desc. (Kaluza), 891. In a robe of samite Anoon sche gan her tire.
1526. Tindale, 1 Pet. iii. 5. After this manner in the olde tyme did the wholy wemen which trusted in god tyre them selves.
1589. Greene, Menaphon (Arb.), 76. But am not I a Gentleman, though tirde in a shepheardes skincote?
1602. Marston, Antonio’s Rev., V. iii. Slinke to my chamber then, and tyre thee.
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), To Tire, to dress.
c. To dress (the hair or head), esp. with a tire or head-dress (TIRE sb.1 3); = ATTIRE v.1 3 c. arch.
1539. Bible (Great), 2 Kings ix. 30. Iezabel … starched her face, and tired her heed, and looked out at a window.
1594. Carew, Tasso (1881), 74. With lockes of wrythed snakes some tire their pates.
1603. Eng. Mourning Garment, in Select. fr. Harl. Misc. (1793), 208. She never could abide to gaze in a mirror, or looking-glass; no not to behold one, while her head was tyred and adorned.
1907. Daily Chron., 8 Aug., 4/4. With her flaxen hair tired in Greek fashion.
3. To plaster or decorate (a building). Now dial.
a. 1400–50. Alexander, 5644. Off tried topaces & trewe tyrid was þe wawes.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 8751. This tabernacle tristy was tyrit on hegh.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, III. xiv. (Roxb.), 19/1. To mixt haire and Lyme together to make plaster, or straw and clay together for the tyreing of the inside of thatched houses.
1904. in Eng. Dial. Dict., s.v., (Somerset) I suppose you was all day yesterday tiring the church?
† 4. spec. To prepare or dress (an egg) as food.
1486. Bk. St. Albans, F vij b. An Egge Tyred.
1513. Bk. of Keruynge, in Babees Bk. (1868), 265. Termes of a Keruer…. Tyere that egge.
1530. Palsgr., 758/1. I tyer an egge…. Let ne se who can best tyer this egge.
1542. Boorde, Dyetary, xii. (1870), 265. That they [eggs] be tyred with a lytell salte and suger.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, III. 78. Tire that Egg.
