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Same as seraskier. sircar (sér-kär'), n. [Also sirkar, circar, cercar; or authority. As there are many janizaries about the country on their little estates, they are governed by a sardar in every cas tel late, and are subject only to their own body. A nobler sir ne'er lived 'Twixt sky and ground. Shak., Cymbeline, v. 5. 145. Here stalks me by a proud and spangled sir , That looks three handfuls higher than his foretop. B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, iii. 2. 3. Master; mister: a respectful and formal title of addre , used formerly to men of superior rank, position, or age, and now to men of equal rank, or without regard to rank, as a mere term of addre , without etymological significance. In emphatic a ertions, threats, or reproaches the word takes meaning from the tone in which it is ut tered. It was used sometimes formerly, and is still dialectally, in addre ing women. "What, serys ! " he seith, "this goth not all a right." Generydes (E. E. T. S.), l. 1536. And [Lot] seide, I prey 30w, syres , bowith down into the hows of zoure child, and dwellith there. Wyclif , Gen. xix. 2. Our lamp is spent, it's out! Good sirs , take heart. My noble girls! Ah, women, women, look, A close palkee, with a pa enger; the bearers... trotting to a jerking ditty which the sirdar , or leader, is improvising. J. W. Palmer, The New and the Old, p. 265. sirdar-bearer (sér-där bar"ėr), n . In India, originally, the chief or leader of the bearers of a palanquin, who took the orders of the master; hence, a head servant, sometimes a kind of head waiter, sometimes a valet or body-servant. sire (sir), n. [ sire = G. Dan. Sw. sire , sire , master, lord, sir, sire , lord (used in addre ing a sovereign), senior , an elder, ML. a chief, lord, orig. adj., elder, compar. of senex , old: see senior . Cf. sir .) 11. A master; a lord; hence, a personage of importance; an esquire; a gentleman. Ther rede I wel he wol be lord and syre . Chaucer , Parliament of Fowls, 1. 12. Oure sire in his see aboue the seuene sterris Sawe the many my cheuys that these men dede. Richard the Redele , iii. 352. Ped. Whence come you, sir ? San. From fleaing myself, sir . Soto . From playing with fencers, sir ; and they have beat him out of his clothes, sir . Middle ton and Rowley , Spanish Gypsy, ii. 2. She had nothing ethereal about her. No, sir ; she was of the earth earthy. Thackeray, Fitz-Boodle Papers, Dorothea. Specifically-(a) [ cap .] A title of honor prefixed to the Christian names of knights and baronets, and formerly applied also to those of higher rank, as the king; it was also prefixed occasionally to the title of rank itself: as, Sir King; Sir Knight; Sir Herald. Syr Edwarde, somtyme Kynge of England, our fader. Arnold's Chron., p. 31. But, Sir, is this the way to recover your Father's Favour? Why, Sir Sampson will be irreconcileable. Congreve, Love for Love, i. 1. Sir king, there be but two old men that know. Tennyson, Coming of Arthur. (bt) Formerly, a title of a bachelor of arts; hence, a title given to a clergyman; also, a clergyman. Sir. A title formerly applied to priests and curates in general, for this reason: dominus, the academical title of a bachelor of arts, was usually rendered by sir in English at the universities. So that a bachelor, who in the books stood Dominus Brown, was in conversation called Sir Brown.. Therefore, as most clerical persons had taken that first degree, it became usual to style them Sir . Nares. And xxvij Day of August Dece yd Syr Thomas Toppe, 'a prest of the west countre. Torkington , Diarie of Eng. Travell, p. 56. I prithee, put on this gown and this beard; make him believe thou art Sir Topas the curate. Shak., T. N., iv. 2. 2. Voted, Sept. 5th, 1763, "that Sir Sewall, B. A., be the Instructor in the Hebrew and other learned languages for three years." Peirce, Hist. Harv. Univ., p. 234. superior rank, position, or age, especially to a prince. (See sir.) Sire is or has been in present or recent use only in addre ing a king or other sovereign prince. Thence to the court he past; there told the King,... And added " Sire, my liege, so much I learnt." Tennyson, Lance lot and Elaine. 31. The master of a house; goodman; husband. Upon a nyght Jankin, that was our sire, Redde on his book, as he sat by the fire. Chaucer, Prol. to Wife of Bath's Tale, 1. 713. The only exception known to me is art. vi. in the Statuts des Poulaillers de Paris: "The wife of a poulterer may carry on the said mystery after the death of her husband, quite as freely as if her sire was alive; and if she marries a man not of the mystery, and wishes to carry it on, she must buy the (right of carrying on the) mystery." English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. cxxxii., note. 4. An old person; an elder. ... He was an aged syre , all hory gray. Spenser, F. Q., I. x. 5. That bearded, staff-supported Sire- That Old Man, studious to expound The spectacle, is mounting high To days of dim antiquity. Words worth, White Doe of Rylstone, i. 5. A father; an ancestor; a progenitor: used also in composition: as, grandsire ; great-grandsire. Lewde wrecche, wel by semi the thi siris sonne to wedde me! Gesta Romanorum (ed. Herrtage), p. 124. He, but a duke, would have his son a king, And raise his i ue, like a loving sire . Shak., 3 Hen. VI., ii. 2. 22. Sons, sires , and grandsires, all will wear the bays. Pope , Imit. of Horace, II. i. 171. siren 6. The male parent of a beast: used especially of stallions, but also of bulls, dogs, and other domestic animals: generally with dam as the female parent. The sires were well selected, and the growing animals were not subjected to the fearful setbacks attendant on The Century , XXXVII. 334. pa ing a winter on the cold plains. 7. A breed; a growth: as, a good sire of pigs, or of cabbages. Hall i well. [Prov. Eng.] sire (sir), v. t.; pret. and pp. sired, ppr. siring. [ Cowards father cowards, and base things sire base. Shak ., Cymbeline, iv. 2. 26. sired on (si-re'don), n . [NL. (Wagler), si- redon , in pl. sired ones , σειρηδών , a late col- lateral form of σειρήν , a siren: see siren .] A larval salamander; a urodele batrachian with gills, which may subsequently be lost: original- ly applied to the Mexican axolotl, the larval or gilled form of Amblystoma mexican a , under the impre ion that it was a distinct genus. See cut under axolotl . sirele (sir'les), a. [ That Mother-Maid, Who Sire - le bore her Sire, yet ever-Maid. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Triumph of Faith, iii. 33. 2. Ungenerative; unprocreative; unproductive. The Plant is leaf-le , branch-le , void of fruit; The Beast is lust-le , sex-le , sire - le , mute. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., Eden.