English Explanatory Dictionary

lire

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Flesh, brawn, or muscle; the fleshy part of a person or animal in contradistinction to the bone and skin.
  2. The fleshy part of a roast capon, etc. as distinguished from a limb or joint.
noun
  1. The cheek.
  2. Face; appearance of the face or skin; complexion; hue.
noun
  1. The Manx shearwater (bird).
noun
  1. plural of lira

Word forms

lire lires

Etymology

From Middle English lire, lyre, from Old English līra (“any fleshy part of the body, muscle, calf of the leg”), from Proto-Germanic *ligwizô, *lihwizô (“thigh, groin”), from Proto-Indo-European *lekʷs-, *lewks- (“groin”). Cognate with Dutch lies (“groin”), Swedish lår (“thigh”).

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