hippurite

& a. [HIPPURITES.] hïre, v . t . [A. S. hýrian , from hýr = hire (q. v.).] 1. To procure anything from another person at a certain price or consideration for temporary use; to engage. "The Czar of Muscovy hired my house at Say's Court."-Evelyn: Memoirs, Jan., 1698. 2. To engage in service for a stipulated price, payment, or wages; to contract for the services of for a period. "Servants who are hired by the month or by the year." -Smith: Wealth of Nations , bk. i., ch. viii. 3. To let for hire; to lease; to grant the use or services of for a stipulated price or consideration; now only with out . "A man plauntide a vyneyerd tilieris." Wycliffe: Mark xii. 1. Frequently used reflexively. and hiride it to IMG:content-1187.png:[blocks in formation] *4. To bribe. (Dryden: Virgil's Æneid , ii. 42.) hïre, *here, *huire, *hure, *huyre, *hyre, s . [A. S. hyr ; cogn. with Dut. huur; Sw. hyra ; Dan. hyre; Ger. heuer.] 1. The price, reward, recompense, equivalent A. As subst .: A mollusk of the genus Hippurites, paid, or contracted to be paid, for the temporary or more rarely of family Hippuritidæ. Woodward: Mollusca (3d ed.), pp. 32, 33.) B. As adj .: Of or belonging to the Hippurites or the Hip puri tide [A]. hippurite-limestone, s. Geol. & Palæont.: Limestone of Lower Cretaceous age, characterized by the abundance of fo il hippurites, especially Hippurites organ i sans and its casts. It occurs in the south of France, in Spain, Sicily, and Greece. ( Lyell .)