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Squire   /skwaɪr/   Listen
noun
Squire  n.  A square; a measure; a rule. (Obs.) "With golden squire."



Squire  n.  
1.
A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.
2.
A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See Esquire. (Eng.) "His privy knights and squires."
3.
A male attendant on a great personage; also (Colloq.), a devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau.
4.
A title of office and courtesy. See under Esquire.



verb
Squire  v. t.  (past & past part. squired; pres. part. squiring)  
1.
To attend as a squire.
2.
To attend as a beau, or gallant, for aid and protection; as, to squire a lady. (Colloq.)






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"Squire" Quotes from Famous Books



... when he needed it wust. An' he had it in mind to fool ye from the first. Now him and Huldy Spiller has done it. Don't you let 'em. You show 'em what you air. I've got a hoss out thar, and Selim's down in the stable. I'll put yo' saddle on him. Git yo' skirt, honey. Let's you and me ride over to Squire Gaylord's and be wedded. Then we'll have the laugh on these here smart folks ...
— Judith of the Cumberlands • Alice MacGowan

... made good Their dark impenetrable wood, Each stepping where his comrade stood, The instant that he fell. No thought was there of dastard flight; Link'd in the serried phalanx tight, Groom fought like noble, squire like knight, As fearlessly and well; Till utter darkness closed her wing O'er their thin host and ...
— Sir Walter Scott - A Lecture at the Sorbonne • William Paton Ker

... friends of Vaucouleurs had also subscribed for a horse. Thus completely equipped, she prepared for war, ready for her eventful voyage. Her escort consisted of a knight named Colet de Vienne, accompanied by his squire, one Richard l'Archer, two men-at-arms from Vaucouleurs, and the two knights Bertrand de Poulangy and Jean de Metz—eight men in all, well armed and well mounted, and thoroughly prepared to defend their charge should ...
— Joan of Arc • Ronald Sutherland Gower

... moment, Richard de Marsay, the Count's squire, entered, coming from Mass; the, spirit disappeared, and thenceforward Humbert de Beaujeu went seriously to work to relieve his father and his vassal, after which he made the journey to Jerusalem to expiate his ...
— Purgatory • Mary Anne Madden Sadlier

... called Talylynn. Lewis, his forerunner and plenipotentiary, was the dread and hate of the alarmed tenants. He had already ejected from his stewardship a good but rather indolent old man, John Bevan, who had grown old in the service of the former "squire;" and besides kept watch over the doings on the farms in an occult and treacherous manner, prowling round their "folds" by dusk, and often listening to conversations by concealing himself. Such was the man ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 • Various


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