quiren.

Brit.

/ˈkwʌɪə/, U.S.

/ˈkwaɪ(ə)r/

Forms:

α. early Middle English cwaer, early Middle English cwaier, early Middle English quaer, Middle English quair, Middle English quare, Middle English quayeer, Middle English quayere, Middle English qvayr, Middle English qwayer, Middle English qwayr, Middle English qwayre, Middle English–1500s quaier, Middle English–1500s quayer, Middle English–1500s quayre, Middle English–1500s qvare, Middle English–1600s quaire, late Middle English whaȝer, 1500s quarre, 1500s qwaire, 1500s qware; Scottish pre-1700 quaire, pre-1700 quarre, pre-1700 quayr, pre-1700 quhair, pre-1700 quhar, pre-1700 1700s quar, pre-1700 1700s quare, pre-1700 1700s– quair.

β. early Middle English cweier, late Middle English quer, late Middle English queyer, late Middle English queyre, 1500s quear, 1500s quere, 1500s–1600s queare, 1500s–1600s queere, 1500s–1600s (1800s English regional (northern)) queer; Scottish pre-1700 queare, pre-1700 1700s quer.

γ. late Middle English–1700s quier, late Middle English– quire, 1500s quyer, 1500s qyer, 1600s quiar, 1600s quiere, 1600s quior; Scottish pre-1700 1700s– quire.

δ. late Middle English quoyer.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French quair, quaer.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman quair, quayer, etc. and Old French quaer, cayer, caier, Middle French quaier, cayer, cahier, coier (French cahier ) set of (typically four) sheets of parchment or paper, especially for writing (end of 12th cent.), manuscript gathering (1262 or earlier), pamphlet (end of 13th cent. or earlier), gathering of a printed book (1611 or earlier), ultimately < post-classical Latin quaternus , quaternum booklet, quire (see quatern n.); the ending of the French word apparently shows remodelling in -ier -er suffix² 2 (in Middle French, French cahier , h is purely graphic and used to mark the hiatus). Compare Old Occitan cazern (c1228; Occitan quasèrn ), Catalan quadern , qüern (late 13th cent. as coern ), Spanish cuaderno (c1236 as quaderno ), Portuguese caderno (13th cent.), Italian quaderno (1211), and also Middle Dutch quohier (also quayer ; Dutch kohier , cahier ), Old Icelandic kver ; both < French. Compare quaternion n.On the vowel raising shown by the γ. forms see discussion in E. J. Dobson Eng. Pronunc. 1500–1700 (ed. 2, 1968) II. §136 (compare β. forms at choir n., and also e.g. briar n.¹, friar n., contrive v.¹). In early use in sense 2a frequently unchanged in the plural following a cardinal number (a common feature of words denoting units of quantity, etc.; compare ream n.³ 1a).

1. Originally: a small book or pamphlet, esp. one consisting of a set of four sheets of parchment or paper folded in two so as to form eight leaves; (also) a short poem, treatise, etc., which is or could be contained in such a book. Later more generally: any book (containing literary work). Now rare (chiefly Scottish and literary).In quots. 1904, 1952 at α. with allusion to the Kingis Quair; cf. quot. c1500 at α. .

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > book > kind of book > pamphlet > [noun] > small

quire?c1225

tract1806

pamphletette1882

tractlet1889

α.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 183 Þe ancre þe warnde an oðer an quaer to leanen.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 208 Ȝef þu hauest cnif oðer clað..scrowe oðer quaer [c1230 Corpus cwaer; a1250 Titus cwaier].

1394 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1836) I. 185 (MED) Also I wyte..to Johan thayr sonne a quayer of Emunde Mirrour in ynglysch.

1422 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 51 Also, I bequeth unto sir Reynold, my prest, iiij quayres of Doctours on Mathewe.

a1450 St. Katherine (Richardson 44) (1884) 1 Ther was take to me a quayere Where yn was drawe in to englesshe..hire martirdom.

c1450 (?a1405) J. Lydgate Complaint Black Knight (Fairf.) 674 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 410 (MED) Go, litel quayre, go vn-to my lyves quene.

c1500 in Kingis Quair (1939) 11 Heirefter followis the quair maid be King James of Scotland the First callit the Kingis Quair and maid quen..[he] wes in Ingland.

a1529 J. Skelton Speke Parrot in Poet. Wks. (1843) II. 14 Go, litell quayre, namyd the Popagay.

1548–9 Acta Conc. Publ. 581 The quair quharin the samin wes contenit wes brynt.

c1626 H. Bisset Rolment Courtis (1920) I. 21 Of princes in the stait, And thair erectionis, be this quair delait.

1904 M. H. Hewlett (title) The Queen's Quair.

1946 J. L. Mitchell (title) A Scots Quair.

1952 Scots Mag. Jan. 270 There's some that tae their ingle cast Their e'en, an' wi' some learned quair, Tak' tent tae pree their leisure tame.

β. a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Titus) (1963) 84 Þe anker þæt warnede anoðer acweier to leane.c1450 Inventory in Proc. Somerset Archaeol. & Nat. Hist. Soc. (1858) 7 103 (MED) Remayneth a quer of Commemorations.1473–4 in H. J. F. Swayne Churchwardens' Accts. Sarum (1896) 15 In j queyre y bought with the story of Corporis Xri, ij s. iiij d.c1535 Bp. J. Fisher Wks. (E.E.T.S.) 429 Who so euer ye be, y^t shall fortune to rede this queare.γ. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. viii. 1393/2 The bishop of Salis. drewe out a quire of the Concordance, and layd it before the bishop of Harford. 1916 M. Hewlett Let. 25 Apr. (1926) 226 Dear Squire, I am very glad to have your quire of poetry, which is in jolly type and on jolly paper.

a. A set of four sheets of parchment or paper folded in two so as to form eight leaves; any gathering or set of sheets forming part of a complete manuscript or printed book, esp. a gathering formed of one sheet folded three times, so as to form eight leaves. Also: a set of twenty-four or twenty-five sheets of paper; one twentieth of a ream (ream n.³ 1a).

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > book > leaves or pages of book > [noun] > quire or gathering

quire1393

stitching1679

gathering1683

qr.1741

section1859

society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [noun] > large quantity of > specific quantity of

milleOE

reamc1390

quire1393

ternion1609

quaternion1625

quinternion1652

quinion1872

sextern1885

society > communication > printing > paper > [noun] > specific quantity of

quatern?1533

ternion1609

quaternion1625

quinternion1652

bundle1724

ream1832

quinion1872

quire1879

sextern1885

α.

1345 in J. A. Kingdon Arch. Worshipful Company of Grocers (1886) I. 25 Achate iiij quiers papier de Rogier Osekyn pur viij d.]

1393 in A. H. Thomas Cal. Plea & Mem. Rolls London Guildhall (1932) III. 205 (MED) [40] quaiers [of paper] real [and other paper, 16 s. 8 d.].

a1438 Bk. Margery Kempe (1940) i. 5 (MED) Whan he had wretyn a qwayr, he addyd a leef þerto, and þan wrot he þis proym.

?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) 1549 He bade him lere John ewangelist. ‘Of quayers seuen I haue a boke, We may ilk a day a quayer loke.’

1469 W. Ebesham in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 392 I did write to quairs of papir of witnessis, euery quaire conteynyng xiiij leves.

1579 in Bannatyne Misc. (1836) II. 197 Thrie fyue quair papir bukes, the pece xii s.

1613 in J. Barmby Memorials St. Giles's, Durham (1896) 42 A quaire of paper for the use of the parishe.

1674 W. Cunningham Diary 26 Mar. (1887) 33 Sent to Glasgow for 3 quair paper.

1690 in A. W. C. Hallen Acct. Bk. Sir J. Foulis (1894) 128 For a quair gilded paper in halfe sheets [7s.].

1710 in H. Armet Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1967) XIII. 199 Each quair of new papers or pamphlets sixteen shillings per quair.

β. 1473–4 in H. J. F. Swayne Churchwardens' Accts. Sarum (1896) 15 In this same queyre of paper new bought, ijs. vj d.1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 164 Mayn, bothe for a hande and for a queare of paper.1575 T. Churchyard 1st Pt. Chippes f. 8 ^v If here I should, all skirmishes expresse..Of paper sure, a quere would not suffice.1597 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks. ii. i. 25 Lo what it is that makes white rags so deare, That men must giue a teston for a queare.c1666 in 6th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1877) App. 686/1 Nyne queare of paper at aucht shilling per queare.1696 in Pall Mall Gaz. (1889) 8 Jan. 7/2 A Queer of paper..A Coppy Booke.1737 in J. Colville Ochtertyre House Bk. of Accomps (1907) 19 For a pound of hoaps and a quer paper..2s 2d.1737 in J. Colville Ochtertyre House Bk. of Accomps (1907) 32 For two quers of course paper..6d.1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Queer, a quire of paper.γ. 1436–7 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 241 (MED) Also, payd For to quiers paper schryuable, Summa viij d.1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 128 j reame & vij quires of small paper.1560 in T. Wright Churchwardens' Accts. Ludlow (1869) 96 A quyer of paper..iiij d.1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet B Hee'le spend all he hath in a quire of paper.1647 J. Hall Poems i. 1 How better were it for you to remain (Poore Quires) in ancient raggs.1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 120/1 Cassie Quires, are the two outside Quires in a Ream, called also Cording Quires.1711 Boston News-let. 19 Nov. 2/2 (advt.) Several Files of Papers belonging to the Court of Admiralty, some Books, several Quires of Writing-Paper,..were taken out of the House of Edward Weaver.1724 Act 11 Geo. I. c. 7 p. 367/1 Brown Paper, the Bundle containing 40 Quire..3s. 4d.1772 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra II. lxviii. 342 He was charged..for feloniously stealing eleven quires of writing-paper.1821 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. 99 It was about a quire of folio paper, written in a large and running hand like his own.1850 W. T. Moncrieff Orig. Coll. Songs 104 Psalm singers paper are in quires, and some in reams.1879 Printing Trades Jrnl. No. 26. 20 The cost of paper from one quire to one ream.1948 D. Thomas Let. 25 May (1987) 675 Nor is this anything to be proud, or ashamed, of; I do not think any better of a verse because it takes weeks, and quires, to complete it.1992 N. F. Blake in C. Blank Lang. & Civilization I. 242 There are 16 quires of paper, but with the outside and middle sheets of each quire being parchment.

b. in (loose) quires: unbound; in unbound gatherings or sheets. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > [adjective] > bound > unbound

in (loose) quires1437

unbound1541

in sheets1693

ungathered1888

α.

a1480 Inventory of Bks. in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 517 Item, in quayerys Tully de Senectute.

1561 J. Knox Wks. VI. 130 I sent to you..the Confession of our Faith, in quairs, unbound.

a1600 ( W. Stewart tr. H. Boece Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) 103 And in that place thair wes thir storeis fund, Sum in lows quarris and vther sum weill bund.

β. 1552 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16281) (colophon) The Imprinter to sell this Booke in Queres for two shillynges and sixe pence.γ. 1613 Bodleian Day Bk. I. 19 Aug. in S. Gibson Early Oxf. Bindings (1903) 53 Delivered in Quiars to Dominick Pinart.1668 F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue II. xxiii. 203 His Ship being well furnished, he gets a Ware-house, where he bestowed his book in quires.1679 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 439 I gave my book..to the Heralds' Office in quires.1733 J. Swift On Poetry 10 Your Poem sunk, And sent in Quires to line a Trunk.1777 (title) A catalogue of books, being the entire stock, in quires, of the late Messrs. R. and A. Foulis.1885 Bookseller 5 Mar. 313 (advt.) The valuable publication stock, in Cloth and Quires.1961 T. Landau Encycl. Librarianship (ed. 2) 173/1 In quires, a book still in folded sheets, not stitched or bound. Also ‘in sheets’, or ‘in signatures’. ‘In quires’ is preferred because of its connotations that the sheets have been folded.2005 Guardian (Nexis) 12 Aug. 19 Some physical aspects of the books on display would strike him as nifty improvements on the 15th-century commodity: dust jackets, indexes, covers (he, of course, sold his wares from his Westminster stall in quires).δ. 1437 Inventory in Sussex Archaeol. Coll. (1890) 37 175 (MED) Item, delivred to the quene at the Hartford..a book of the doctrine of the maydenys in franche in quoyers of parchemyn.

†c. Scottish. A gathering of sheets of gold or silver leaf. Obsolete.The precise number of sheets constituting a quire is uncertain; Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at Quair) suggests that a book (book n. 7a) was composed of twelve (or occasionally thirteen) quires.

ΚΠ

1496 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 294 iij quaris of a siluer buke to the samyn banar, vj s.

1538 in H. M. Paton Accts. Masters of Wks. (1957) I. 215 Ane buik and vii quairris fyne gold, price of the buik iii lib. v s., viz. for the quare v s.

Compounds

C1. General attributive and instrumental, as quire-break, quire structure, quire work, etc.; quire-folded adj.

ΚΠ

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 124/1 When quire work is Printed.

1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 108 Quire folded.., folded in quires—not sent in ‘flat’.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. vii. [Aeolus] 117 The nethermost deck of the first machine jogged forward its flyboard with sllt [sic] the first batch of quirefolded papers.

1983 in Notes & Queries Apr. 164/1 This carries on to fol. 189v, over the quire-break at fols. 187–8, and then at fol. 190 begin the long series of sixteenth-century additions.

1997 Jewish Q. Rev. 87 427 The second lecture is devoted to the details of comparative parchment prepartation, quire structure, ruling patterns [etc.].

C2.

quire book n. now historical and rare a book composed of a single quire of paper, typically used as a notebook or for keeping accounts.

ΚΠ

1700 Edinb. Gaz. 23–6 Sept. Dropt or Lost, a Quair Book in Ottavo, Bound end wayes, about on [sic] third of it written in short hand.

1781 B. Franklin Let. 13 Sept. in B. B. Oberg Papers B. Franklin (1999) XXXV. 471 Among my Papers..were eight or ten quire or 2 quire Books of rough Drafts of my Letters.

1905 Musical Times 46 525/2 A fine specimen of a ‘Quire Book’..contained compositions of Robert Fayrfax, organist of St. Albans Abbey in the last decade of the 15th century.

2002 A. O. Thompson Unprofitable Servants iv. 114 He dictated to the bookkeeper those items of income and expenditure which he expected that individual to place in a quire book, called a subsidiary journal, theoretically made up monthly.

quire signature n. the signature (signature n. 2b) of any of the quires of which a book is made up.

ΚΠ

1882 Jrnl. Soc. Biblical Lit. & Exegesis 2 4 A quire signature on one of the leaves had enabled him to compute very closely the size of the manuscript.

1957 N. R. Ker Catal. MSS containing Anglo-Saxon p. xl (heading) Quire-Signatures and Leaf-Numbers.

1978 Anglo-Saxon England 7 232 It may have its own series of quire signatures.

1994 Bull. School Oriental & Afr. Stud. 57 362 The fourth quire signature is found on f.15.

quire stock n. now rare unbound books in quires.

ΚΠ

1820 Times 10 Mar. 4/4 (advt.) The valuable and extensive Stock of Books..comprising the whole of the bound and quire stock.

1885 Bookseller 5 Mar. (advt.) Bookselling Business for Sale..including..bound and quire Stock.

1937 E. J. Labarre Dict. Paper 195/1 ‘Quire stock’, printed books already ‘quired’ but unbound.

1957 R. M. Wiles Serial Publ. in Eng. before 1750 v. 192 At the sale of Edward Symon's stock on September 1, 1741, Thomas Osborne bought..the..quire stock.

Derivatives

ˈquire-wise adv. in quires; in the manner of a quire or quires; in a manner which can be formed into a quire.

ΚΠ

1856 N. B. Shurtleff Decimal Syst. Arrangem. Admin. Libraries ii. 47 These books should be of foolscap size..and should be bound quirewise.

1882 J. Southward Pract. Printing xiii. 117 Folio sheets are sometimes required to be..folded within each other, or quirewise.

1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 109 Quirewise, jobs of single leaves printed on both sides of the paper.

1960 G. A. Glaister Encycl. Bk. 339 Quirewise, the manner of gathering the leaves of a booklet by folding them and placing them one in another. They are then stitched.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	quire
释义	quiren. Brit. /ˈkwʌɪə/, U.S. /ˈkwaɪ(ə)r/ Forms: α. early Middle English cwaer, early Middle English cwaier, early Middle English quaer, Middle English quair, Middle English quare, Middle English quayeer, Middle English quayere, Middle English qvayr, Middle English qwayer, Middle English qwayr, Middle English qwayre, Middle English–1500s quaier, Middle English–1500s quayer, Middle English–1500s quayre, Middle English–1500s qvare, Middle English–1600s quaire, late Middle English whaȝer, 1500s quarre, 1500s qwaire, 1500s qware; Scottish pre-1700 quaire, pre-1700 quarre, pre-1700 quayr, pre-1700 quhair, pre-1700 quhar, pre-1700 1700s quar, pre-1700 1700s quare, pre-1700 1700s– quair. β. early Middle English cweier, late Middle English quer, late Middle English queyer, late Middle English queyre, 1500s quear, 1500s quere, 1500s–1600s queare, 1500s–1600s queere, 1500s–1600s (1800s English regional (northern)) queer; Scottish pre-1700 queare, pre-1700 1700s quer. γ. late Middle English–1700s quier, late Middle English– quire, 1500s quyer, 1500s qyer, 1600s quiar, 1600s quiere, 1600s quior; Scottish pre-1700 1700s– quire. δ. late Middle English quoyer. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French quair, quaer. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman quair, quayer, etc. and Old French quaer, cayer, caier, Middle French quaier, cayer, cahier, coier (French cahier ) set of (typically four) sheets of parchment or paper, especially for writing (end of 12th cent.), manuscript gathering (1262 or earlier), pamphlet (end of 13th cent. or earlier), gathering of a printed book (1611 or earlier), ultimately < post-classical Latin quaternus , quaternum booklet, quire (see quatern n.); the ending of the French word apparently shows remodelling in -ier -er suffix² 2 (in Middle French, French cahier , h is purely graphic and used to mark the hiatus). Compare Old Occitan cazern (c1228; Occitan quasèrn ), Catalan quadern , qüern (late 13th cent. as coern ), Spanish cuaderno (c1236 as quaderno ), Portuguese caderno (13th cent.), Italian quaderno (1211), and also Middle Dutch quohier (also quayer ; Dutch kohier , cahier ), Old Icelandic kver ; both < French. Compare quaternion n.On the vowel raising shown by the γ. forms see discussion in E. J. Dobson Eng. Pronunc. 1500–1700 (ed. 2, 1968) II. §136 (compare β. forms at choir n., and also e.g. briar n.¹, friar n., contrive v.¹). In early use in sense 2a frequently unchanged in the plural following a cardinal number (a common feature of words denoting units of quantity, etc.; compare ream n.³ 1a). 1. Originally: a small book or pamphlet, esp. one consisting of a set of four sheets of parchment or paper folded in two so as to form eight leaves; (also) a short poem, treatise, etc., which is or could be contained in such a book. Later more generally: any book (containing literary work). Now rare (chiefly Scottish and literary).In quots. 1904, 1952 at α. with allusion to the Kingis Quair; cf. quot. c1500 at α. . ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > kind of book > pamphlet > [noun] > small quire?c1225 tract1806 pamphletette1882 tractlet1889 α. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 183 Þe ancre þe warnde an oðer an quaer to leanen. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 208 Ȝef þu hauest cnif oðer clað..scrowe oðer quaer [c1230 Corpus cwaer; a1250 Titus cwaier]. 1394 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1836) I. 185 (MED) Also I wyte..to Johan thayr sonne a quayer of Emunde Mirrour in ynglysch. 1422 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 51 Also, I bequeth unto sir Reynold, my prest, iiij quayres of Doctours on Mathewe. a1450 St. Katherine (Richardson 44) (1884) 1 Ther was take to me a quayere Where yn was drawe in to englesshe..hire martirdom. c1450 (?a1405) J. Lydgate Complaint Black Knight (Fairf.) 674 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 410 (MED) Go, litel quayre, go vn-to my lyves quene. c1500 in Kingis Quair (1939) 11 Heirefter followis the quair maid be King James of Scotland the First callit the Kingis Quair and maid quen..[he] wes in Ingland. a1529 J. Skelton Speke Parrot in Poet. Wks. (1843) II. 14 Go, litell quayre, namyd the Popagay. 1548–9 Acta Conc. Publ. 581 The quair quharin the samin wes contenit wes brynt. c1626 H. Bisset Rolment Courtis (1920) I. 21 Of princes in the stait, And thair erectionis, be this quair delait. 1904 M. H. Hewlett (title) The Queen's Quair. 1946 J. L. Mitchell (title) A Scots Quair. 1952 Scots Mag. Jan. 270 There's some that tae their ingle cast Their e'en, an' wi' some learned quair, Tak' tent tae pree their leisure tame. β. a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Titus) (1963) 84 Þe anker þæt warnede anoðer acweier to leane.c1450 Inventory in Proc. Somerset Archaeol. & Nat. Hist. Soc. (1858) 7 103 (MED) Remayneth a quer of Commemorations.1473–4 in H. J. F. Swayne Churchwardens' Accts. Sarum (1896) 15 In j queyre y bought with the story of Corporis Xri, ij s. iiij d.c1535 Bp. J. Fisher Wks. (E.E.T.S.) 429 Who so euer ye be, y^t shall fortune to rede this queare.γ. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. viii. 1393/2 The bishop of Salis. drewe out a quire of the Concordance, and layd it before the bishop of Harford. 1916 M. Hewlett Let. 25 Apr. (1926) 226 Dear Squire, I am very glad to have your quire of poetry, which is in jolly type and on jolly paper. 2. a. A set of four sheets of parchment or paper folded in two so as to form eight leaves; any gathering or set of sheets forming part of a complete manuscript or printed book, esp. a gathering formed of one sheet folded three times, so as to form eight leaves. Also: a set of twenty-four or twenty-five sheets of paper; one twentieth of a ream (ream n.³ 1a). ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > leaves or pages of book > [noun] > quire or gathering quire1393 stitching1679 gathering1683 qr.1741 section1859 society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [noun] > large quantity of > specific quantity of milleOE reamc1390 quire1393 ternion1609 quaternion1625 quinternion1652 quinion1872 sextern1885 society > communication > printing > paper > [noun] > specific quantity of quatern?1533 ternion1609 quaternion1625 quinternion1652 bundle1724 ream1832 quinion1872 quire1879 sextern1885 α. 1345 in J. A. Kingdon Arch. Worshipful Company of Grocers (1886) I. 25 Achate iiij quiers papier de Rogier Osekyn pur viij d.] 1393 in A. H. Thomas Cal. Plea & Mem. Rolls London Guildhall (1932) III. 205 (MED) [40] quaiers [of paper] real [and other paper, 16 s. 8 d.]. a1438 Bk. Margery Kempe (1940) i. 5 (MED) Whan he had wretyn a qwayr, he addyd a leef þerto, and þan wrot he þis proym. ?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) 1549 He bade him lere John ewangelist. ‘Of quayers seuen I haue a boke, We may ilk a day a quayer loke.’ 1469 W. Ebesham in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 392 I did write to quairs of papir of witnessis, euery quaire conteynyng xiiij leves. 1579 in Bannatyne Misc. (1836) II. 197 Thrie fyue quair papir bukes, the pece xii s. 1613 in J. Barmby Memorials St. Giles's, Durham (1896) 42 A quaire of paper for the use of the parishe. 1674 W. Cunningham Diary 26 Mar. (1887) 33 Sent to Glasgow for 3 quair paper. 1690 in A. W. C. Hallen Acct. Bk. Sir J. Foulis (1894) 128 For a quair gilded paper in halfe sheets [7s.]. 1710 in H. Armet Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1967) XIII. 199 Each quair of new papers or pamphlets sixteen shillings per quair. β. 1473–4 in H. J. F. Swayne Churchwardens' Accts. Sarum (1896) 15 In this same queyre of paper new bought, ijs. vj d.1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 164 Mayn, bothe for a hande and for a queare of paper.1575 T. Churchyard 1st Pt. Chippes f. 8 ^v If here I should, all skirmishes expresse..Of paper sure, a quere would not suffice.1597 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks. ii. i. 25 Lo what it is that makes white rags so deare, That men must giue a teston for a queare.c1666 in 6th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1877) App. 686/1 Nyne queare of paper at aucht shilling per queare.1696 in Pall Mall Gaz. (1889) 8 Jan. 7/2 A Queer of paper..A Coppy Booke.1737 in J. Colville Ochtertyre House Bk. of Accomps (1907) 19 For a pound of hoaps and a quer paper..2s 2d.1737 in J. Colville Ochtertyre House Bk. of Accomps (1907) 32 For two quers of course paper..6d.1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Queer, a quire of paper.γ. 1436–7 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 241 (MED) Also, payd For to quiers paper schryuable, Summa viij d.1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 128 j reame & vij quires of small paper.1560 in T. Wright Churchwardens' Accts. Ludlow (1869) 96 A quyer of paper..iiij d.1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet B Hee'le spend all he hath in a quire of paper.1647 J. Hall Poems i. 1 How better were it for you to remain (Poore Quires) in ancient raggs.1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 120/1 Cassie Quires, are the two outside Quires in a Ream, called also Cording Quires.1711 Boston News-let. 19 Nov. 2/2 (advt.) Several Files of Papers belonging to the Court of Admiralty, some Books, several Quires of Writing-Paper,..were taken out of the House of Edward Weaver.1724 Act 11 Geo. I. c. 7 p. 367/1 Brown Paper, the Bundle containing 40 Quire..3s. 4d.1772 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra II. lxviii. 342 He was charged..for feloniously stealing eleven quires of writing-paper.1821 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. 99 It was about a quire of folio paper, written in a large and running hand like his own.1850 W. T. Moncrieff Orig. Coll. Songs 104 Psalm singers paper are in quires, and some in reams.1879 Printing Trades Jrnl. No. 26. 20 The cost of paper from one quire to one ream.1948 D. Thomas Let. 25 May (1987) 675 Nor is this anything to be proud, or ashamed, of; I do not think any better of a verse because it takes weeks, and quires, to complete it.1992 N. F. Blake in C. Blank Lang. & Civilization I. 242 There are 16 quires of paper, but with the outside and middle sheets of each quire being parchment. b. in (loose) quires: unbound; in unbound gatherings or sheets. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > [adjective] > bound > unbound in (loose) quires1437 unbound1541 in sheets1693 ungathered1888 α. a1480 Inventory of Bks. in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 517 Item, in quayerys Tully de Senectute. 1561 J. Knox Wks. VI. 130 I sent to you..the Confession of our Faith, in quairs, unbound. a1600 ( W. Stewart tr. H. Boece Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) 103 And in that place thair wes thir storeis fund, Sum in lows quarris and vther sum weill bund. β. 1552 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16281) (colophon) The Imprinter to sell this Booke in Queres for two shillynges and sixe pence.γ. 1613 Bodleian Day Bk. I. 19 Aug. in S. Gibson Early Oxf. Bindings (1903) 53 Delivered in Quiars to Dominick Pinart.1668 F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue II. xxiii. 203 His Ship being well furnished, he gets a Ware-house, where he bestowed his book in quires.1679 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 439 I gave my book..to the Heralds' Office in quires.1733 J. Swift On Poetry 10 Your Poem sunk, And sent in Quires to line a Trunk.1777 (title) A catalogue of books, being the entire stock, in quires, of the late Messrs. R. and A. Foulis.1885 Bookseller 5 Mar. 313 (advt.) The valuable publication stock, in Cloth and Quires.1961 T. Landau Encycl. Librarianship (ed. 2) 173/1 In quires, a book still in folded sheets, not stitched or bound. Also ‘in sheets’, or ‘in signatures’. ‘In quires’ is preferred because of its connotations that the sheets have been folded.2005 Guardian (Nexis) 12 Aug. 19 Some physical aspects of the books on display would strike him as nifty improvements on the 15th-century commodity: dust jackets, indexes, covers (he, of course, sold his wares from his Westminster stall in quires).δ. 1437 Inventory in Sussex Archaeol. Coll. (1890) 37 175 (MED) Item, delivred to the quene at the Hartford..a book of the doctrine of the maydenys in franche in quoyers of parchemyn. †c. Scottish. A gathering of sheets of gold or silver leaf. Obsolete.The precise number of sheets constituting a quire is uncertain; Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at Quair) suggests that a book (book n. 7a) was composed of twelve (or occasionally thirteen) quires. ΚΠ 1496 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 294 iij quaris of a siluer buke to the samyn banar, vj s. 1538 in H. M. Paton Accts. Masters of Wks. (1957) I. 215 Ane buik and vii quairris fyne gold, price of the buik iii lib. v s., viz. for the quare v s. Compounds C1. General attributive and instrumental, as quire-break, quire structure, quire work, etc.; quire-folded adj. ΚΠ 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 124/1 When quire work is Printed. 1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 108 Quire folded.., folded in quires—not sent in ‘flat’. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. vii. [Aeolus] 117 The nethermost deck of the first machine jogged forward its flyboard with sllt [sic] the first batch of quirefolded papers. 1983 in Notes & Queries Apr. 164/1 This carries on to fol. 189v, over the quire-break at fols. 187–8, and then at fol. 190 begin the long series of sixteenth-century additions. 1997 Jewish Q. Rev. 87 427 The second lecture is devoted to the details of comparative parchment prepartation, quire structure, ruling patterns [etc.]. C2. quire book n. now historical and rare a book composed of a single quire of paper, typically used as a notebook or for keeping accounts. ΚΠ 1700 Edinb. Gaz. 23–6 Sept. Dropt or Lost, a Quair Book in Ottavo, Bound end wayes, about on [sic] third of it written in short hand. 1781 B. Franklin Let. 13 Sept. in B. B. Oberg Papers B. Franklin (1999) XXXV. 471 Among my Papers..were eight or ten quire or 2 quire Books of rough Drafts of my Letters. 1905 Musical Times 46 525/2 A fine specimen of a ‘Quire Book’..contained compositions of Robert Fayrfax, organist of St. Albans Abbey in the last decade of the 15th century. 2002 A. O. Thompson Unprofitable Servants iv. 114 He dictated to the bookkeeper those items of income and expenditure which he expected that individual to place in a quire book, called a subsidiary journal, theoretically made up monthly. quire signature n. the signature (signature n. 2b) of any of the quires of which a book is made up. ΚΠ 1882 Jrnl. Soc. Biblical Lit. & Exegesis 2 4 A quire signature on one of the leaves had enabled him to compute very closely the size of the manuscript. 1957 N. R. Ker Catal. MSS containing Anglo-Saxon p. xl (heading) Quire-Signatures and Leaf-Numbers. 1978 Anglo-Saxon England 7 232 It may have its own series of quire signatures. 1994 Bull. School Oriental & Afr. Stud. 57 362 The fourth quire signature is found on f.15. quire stock n. now rare unbound books in quires. ΚΠ 1820 Times 10 Mar. 4/4 (advt.) The valuable and extensive Stock of Books..comprising the whole of the bound and quire stock. 1885 Bookseller 5 Mar. (advt.) Bookselling Business for Sale..including..bound and quire Stock. 1937 E. J. Labarre Dict. Paper 195/1 ‘Quire stock’, printed books already ‘quired’ but unbound. 1957 R. M. Wiles Serial Publ. in Eng. before 1750 v. 192 At the sale of Edward Symon's stock on September 1, 1741, Thomas Osborne bought..the..quire stock. Derivatives ˈquire-wise adv. in quires; in the manner of a quire or quires; in a manner which can be formed into a quire. ΚΠ 1856 N. B. Shurtleff Decimal Syst. Arrangem. Admin. Libraries ii. 47 These books should be of foolscap size..and should be bound quirewise. 1882 J. Southward Pract. Printing xiii. 117 Folio sheets are sometimes required to be..folded within each other, or quirewise. 1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 109 Quirewise, jobs of single leaves printed on both sides of the paper. 1960 G. A. Glaister Encycl. Bk. 339 Quirewise, the manner of gathering the leaves of a booklet by folding them and placing them one in another. They are then stitched. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). quirev. Brit. /ˈkwʌɪə/, U.S. /ˈkwaɪ(ə)r/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: quire n. Etymology: < quire n. transitive. To arrange in quires; to form into quires. Frequently in passive. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bind [verb (transitive)] > arrange sheets quire1683 interleaf1712 volumize1830 volume1853 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 219 If they be Quir'd Sheets, that is, two, three, or four Sheets Quir'd together. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 124/1 The number of Sheets Quired one in the other. 1755 J. Smith Printer's Gram. x. 226 Two Sheets in Folio, Quired, or lying one in another. 1771 P. Luckombe Hist. Print 489 He doubles or quires up all the other Heaps. 1841 W. Savage Dict. Art of Printing 401 Taking care that the folios of the two pages in each form of the first Signature make one more than the whole number quired. 1937 E. J. Labarre Dict. Paper 147/1 The reams are folded in half, or quired or interfolded,..but not flat. 1987 Oxf. Diocesan Mag. Sept. 8/2 After the penman had written on the parchment, it was quired, stitched, and bound in a leather cover. 2000 H. Amory & D. D. Hall Hist. of Bk. in Amer. I. i. 51 Deborah Franklin folded and quired her husband's printing. Derivatives ˈquired adj. (of a book, manuscript, etc.) consisting of quires, in quires; (of paper) folded or able to be folded in a quire. ΚΠ 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 352 The Backs of the Quired Books. 1875 J. Southward Dict. Typogr. (ed. 2) 117 Quired. Two sheets so imposed as when folded and made up will lie one within the other. 1955 Shakespeare Q. 6 261 The setting was also, ordinarily, by the pairs of formes, composed in regular order, that make up the quired sheets of the finished book. 1991 P. H. Kelly Locke on Money I. 148 The Notes on Trade consist of a single quired sheet. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see also also refers to : choirquiren. also refers to : choirquirev. < n.?c1225v.1683 see also
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