Quires is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for QUIRES in dictionary:

VERB:
• QUIRE, to sing in concert
NOUN:
• four sheets of paper or parchment folded to form eight leaves, as in medieval manuscripts.
• any collection of leaves one within another in a manuscript or book
• 25 (formerly 24) sheets of paper; one twentieth of a ream
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to arrange sheets of paper in sets of twenty-four

Words related to QUIRES

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Words that contain QUIRES

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How to use QUIRES in a sentence

• He gazed at her until a gush of tears blinded his eyes and he turned, blinking them away, to the untidy quires of score paper which he had tried to choose instead.
• She picked up one of the quires of manuscript, opened it and gazed a while at the many-staved score.
• Fine white vellum, 192 leaves, in 19 quires of ten leaves each and two additional leaves at the end, the last of which is blank.
• Leaves four to seven of the first quire and all of quires three to eight, a total of sixty-four leaves, have 28 lines to the page, the rest 27 lines.
• The register, which may give only the number of sheets in each of the quires, or the first word of each sheet of the quire, is here of the latter kind.
• Our copy has fifty-two printed leaves and no blanks and no occasion for them, since the printed leaves, of themselves, form complete quires.
• Now, in the formation of quires, sheets were so arranged that hair side faced hair side, and flesh side flesh side.
• But nobody could climb trees with several quires of Scriptures under his arm.
• He was moved to run after the boy and cuff him, but the quires under his arms restrained him and he passed on, keeping a dignified silence.
• If it had not been for mine, I should not have learnt that quires and scrolls lead men from God, and that to see and hear God we have only to open our eyes and ears.
• And likewise in Exodus, said Manahem, and he turned over the quires before him.

Similar words containing QUIRE without suffix s

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