Siraskier
(Si*ras"kier) n. See Seraskier.
Siraskierate
(Si*ras"kier*ate) n. See Seraskierate.
Sirbonian
(Sir*bo"ni*an) a. See Serbonian.
Sircar
(Sir*car") n. [Hind. & Per. sarkar a superintendant, overseer, chief; Per. sar the head + kar
action, work.]
1. A Hindoo clerk or accountant. [India]
2. A district or province; a circar. [India]
3. The government; the supreme authority of the state. [India]
Sirdar
(Sir*dar") n. [Hind. & Per. sardar a chief, general; sar the head, top + dar holding, possessing.]
A native chief in Hindostan; a headman. Malcom.
Sire
(Sire) n. [F. sire, originally, an older person. See Sir.]
1. A lord, master, or other person in authority. See Sir. [Obs.]
Pain and distress, sickness and ire,
And melancholy that angry sire,
Be of her palace senators.
Rom. of
R. 2. A tittle of respect formerly used in speaking to elders and superiors, but now only in addressing a
sovereign.
3. A father; the head of a family; the husband.
Jankin thet was our sire [i.e., husband].
Chaucer.
And raise his issue, like a loving sire.
Shak. 4. A creator; a maker; an author; an originator.
[He] was the sire of an immortal strain.
Shelley. 5. The male parent of a beast; — applied especially to horses; as, the horse had a good sire.
Sire is often used in composition; as in grandsire, grandfather; great-grandsire, great- grandfather.
Sire
(Sire), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sired ; p. pr. & vb. n. Siring.] To beget; to procreate; — used of beasts,
and especially of stallions.
