[f. TIRE v.1 + -ED1.]
1. Weakened or exhausted by exertion, etc.; fatigued, wearied; also, sick or weary of, impatient with (something); slang, habitually disinclined to exertion, incorrigibly lazy.
a. in the predicate.
a. 1400–50. [see TIRE v.1 5].
c. 1470. Henry, Wallace, IV. 28. The hors was tyryt, and mycht no forthyr pas.
1523. Fitzherb., Husb., § 15. The horses … wyll soone be tyred, and sore beate, that they may not drawe.
a. 1500. Freiris of Berwik, 257, in Dunbar’s Poems (S.T.S.), 294. I am verry tyrit, wett and cauld.
1562. Turner, Herbal, II. 32 b. Medicines which refreshe them that are wery or tyrede.
1573. Nottingham Rec., IV. 150. A horse that wase leafte ther tyard.
1590. Shaks., Com. Err., IV. iii. 24. The man, sir, that when gentlemen are tired giues them a sob, and rests them.
1704. F. Fuller, Med. Gymn. (1711), 29. Thro’ the greatness of the Perspiration they grow tyr’d.
1782. Cowper, Gilpin, xxxvii. ‘The dinner waits, and we are tired:’ Said Gilpin—‘So am I!’
1852. Mrs. Carlyle, Lett. (1883), II. 196. I am very tired; and the tireder I am, the less I sleep.
1888. ‘J. S. Winter,’ Bootle’s Childr., vii. I got tired out with him at last.
1897. Westm. Gaz., 15 April, 2/3. He ‘lived nowhere, did nothing, and, in fact, he was born tired,’ was what he told the inspector when he was arrested, and it was a graphic summary of a worthless life.
b. in attrib. use.
1508. Dunbar, Tua Mariit Wemen, 176. Was neuer sugeorne wer set na on that snaill tyrit.
1581. A. Hall, Iliad, VIII. 138. Thy chare, thy driuer, and thy seate, a tiered countenaunce shew.
1672. Marvell, Reh. Transp., I. 129. The tyred Magistrates asked them, whether they had not Halters.
1746–7. Hervey, Medit. (1818), 211. The tired shepherd has imposed silence on his pipe.
1871. Mrs. Brookfield, Influence, II. 74. Nothing is more delicious than the atmosphere of a country house to a tired-out Londoner in the month of August.
2. transf. and fig. Worked out, exhausted, used up: in quot. a. 1548, exhausting.
a. 1548. Hall, Chron., Hen. V., 49. In a long fight and tyred battaile.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa, VI. 64. I must here lay down my tired pen!
1766. Museum Rust., VI. 440. When the upper stratum is tired and foul, the owner may … turn down the worn-out soil.
1897. Daily News, 28 July, 8/4. The muslin gowns begin to look more than a little tired.
1899. Times, 16 June, 4/1. The Paris, to use an expressive Americanism, was a tired ship. Ibid., 4/2. The fact that the Paris was a tired ship was one result of the continual striving for records and averages.
1909. Daily Chron., 3 May, 4/7. Colour and shape remind one of a tired cabbage leaf.
3. Comb., as tired-eyed, -faced, -looking.
1841. L. Hunt, Seer (1864), 85. Happy in their tired-heartiness to get to the first bit of holiday ground they can reach.
1893. D. Ainslie, Escarlamonde, 31–2.
| So tired-souled, so blind of aspiration, | |
| I thought him of the bruised, storm-beaten band | |
| Whose eyes look backward when they seek their love. |
1895. Clive Holland, Jap. Wife, 91. We leave the terrace, with its lingering crowds of tired-faced holiday-makers.
1905. Daily Chron., 30 Aug., 4/7. The tired-eyed conductor took her fare.
1907. Westm. Gaz., 3 Dec., 1/3. Vases of somewhat tired-looking pink chrysanthemums.
