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• QUIRE (in earlier forms quaer, quaer and quere, from the O. Fr. quaier, modern cahier, a copy-book, manuscript book; Lat. quaterni, set of four, from quattuor)

QUIRE (in earlier forms quaer, quaer and quere, from the O. Fr. quaier, See also:

• MODERN

modern cahier, a copy-See also:

• BOOK

book, See also:

• MANUSCRIPT

manuscript book; See also:

• LAT

Lat. quaterni, set of four, from quattuor)  , originally the See also:

• TERM

term for four sheets of See also:

• PAPER
• PAPER (Fr. papier, from Lat. papyrus)

paper or See also:

• PARCHMENT

parchment folded so as to make eight leaves, the See also:

• ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary unit in See also:

• MANUSCRIPTS

manuscripts and See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early printed books; the term is now chiefly applied to a twentieth See also:

• PART

part of a See also:

• REAM (either through Du. riem, or O.Fr. reyme, reyme, mod. rame, Med. Lat. risma, from Arabic rizmah, bale or bundle)

ream of See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing paper, twenty-four sheets . In See also:

• BOOKBINDING

bookbinding and See also:

• PUBLISHING

publishing the expression " in quires " is used of the sheets of a See also:

• BOOK

book when not folded or See also:

• BOUND, or BOUNDARY (from O. Fr. bonde, Med. Lat. bodena or butina, a frontier line)

bound . " See also:

• QUIRE (in earlier forms quaer, quaer and quere, from the O. Fr. quaier, modern cahier, a copy-book, manuscript book; Lat. quaterni, set of four, from quattuor)

Quire " was formerly used of a small book contained in a single quire of paper, and so is frequently found in the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short poems, See also:

• TREATISES

treatises, &c . A See also:

• FAMILIAR (through the Fr. familier, from Lat. familiaris, of or belonging to the familia, family)

familiar example is the Kingis Quair of See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

King See also:

• JAMES
• JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
• JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
• JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
• JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
• JAMES, EPISTLE OF
• JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
• JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
• JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
• JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)

James I. of See also:

• SCOTLAND
• SCOTLAND, CHURCH OF
• SCOTLAND, EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF

Scotland . " See also:

• CHOIR (0. Fr. cuer from Lat. chorus; pronounced quire, and until the end of the 17th century so spelt, the spelling being altered to agree with the Fr. chceur)

Choir," a See also:

• BODY

body of singers or the part of a See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church where the singers sit, was formerly spelled " quire," following the See also:

• PRONUNCIATION (Lat. pronuntiatio, from pronuntiare, proclaim, announce, pronounce)

pronunciation of the word (See CHOIR) .