eyre

See also: Eyre

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French erre (“journey, march, way”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin iter, itineris (“a going, way”), from the root of ire (“to go”). Compare errant, itinerant, issue.

Noun

eyre (plural eyres)

1. (UK, law, obsolete) A journey in circuit of certain itinerant judges called justices in eyre (or in itinere).

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “eyre”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Eyer, Reye, eery, eyer, y'ere, ye're, yeer, yere

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Middle English

Noun

eyre

1. Alternative form of eere (“ear of grain”)