▪ I. tiring, vbl. n.1 and ppl. a.1
see after tire v.1
▪ II. tiring, vbl. n.2 ? arch.
(ˈtaɪərɪŋ)
Also 5–7 tyr-.
[f. tire v.2 + -ing1.]
The action of tire v.2; the pulling or tearing of a hawk at a tough morsel given to it to exercise itself; concr. a piece of food given to a hawk for this purpose. Also fig.
| c 1450 Bk. Hawkyng in Rel. Ant. I. 296 The swetteste tyryng that is to goshawke and sperhawke is a pigge is tayle. 1486 Bk. St. Albans, Hawking b viij b, She shall nether at the fedyng ner at the tyryng ne at the lightyng ne at the Rysyng hurtte hir selffe. 1575 Turberv. Falconrie 146 Gyve hir tyring of a wing or a foote of the sayde pullet. 1891 Harting Gloss. Falconry, Tiring,..any tough piece (as the leg of a fowl with little on) given to a hawk when in training to pull at, in order to prolong the meal, and exercise the muscles of the back and neck. |
▪ III. tiring, vbl. n.3
(ˈtaɪərɪŋ)
Also 6–7 tyring.
[f. tire v.3 + -ing1.]
The action of tire v.3; attiring, dressing (arch.: see b); dressing the hair; † fitting out (obs.); also concr. attire, apparel, head-dress (arch.); † equipment, apparatus, garnishing (obs.); spec. see quot. 1869 (dial.).
| 1552 Huloet, Byrlet or tyrynge for women. 1558 in Feuillerat Revels Q. Eliz. (1908) 23 Sarcenet..imployed into..Shertes.., translated into lyninge pullinges oute tuftes tyringes and other garnisshinge. Ibid. 82 Sarsenettes..spent in rowles and wrethes tuftinge tyringe of hedpeces and gyrdells. 1602 Dekker Satirom. Wks. 1873 I. 186 Such delayes in rising, in fitting gownes, in tyring [etc.]. 1620 Shelton Quix. (1746) IV. xxix. 228 In Hell they are working Tapistry Work, and there are made Tyrings and Net-works. 1656 Artif. Handsom. 67 Whose either haire, or complexion, or tiring is not natively their own. 1869 Lonsdale Gloss., Tiring, the plastering under slates. 1909 Daily Chron. 18 Mar. 3/1 He wears his learning as lightly as the tiring of the hair of Aphrodite, borne upon her swan in a Douris vase. |
b. attrib. and Comb., as tiring-chamber, tiring-closet, tiring-glass, tiring-man, tiring-place; tiring-woman, a lady's maid. Also tiring-house, -room. Obs. or arch.
| 1645 Evelyn Diary 27 Feb., A cart, or plaustrum, where the scene or tiring-place is made of boughs in a rural manner. 1732 Fielding Mod. Husb. iv. iv, I know several women of fashion I could not support for a tiring woman. 1825 Scott Betrothed xxii, The..intercession of the tiring-woman obtained admission for travelling merchants, or pedlars. 1844 Mrs. Browning Duchess May lxxii, The smile upon her face, ere she left the tiring-glass Had not time enough to go. 1856 G. H. Boker Francesca da Rimini i. i, I'll be Your tiring-man, for once. 1860 Ld. Lytton Lucile ii. iv. 77 From the dark tiring-chamber behind, straight reissue With new masks the old mummers. |
▪ IV. tiring, vbl. n.4
(ˈtaɪərɪŋ)
[f. tire n.2 or v.4 + -ing1.]
The fitting of a wheel with a tire; the condition or mode of being fitted with tires.
| 1831 Holland Manuf. in Metal I. 157 The tiring, the breadth, and the inclination of the wheels. |