Shire is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SHIRE in dictionary:

VERB:
• (Irish) to refresh or rest
• refresh or rest
NOUN:
• a rural district having its own elected council
• a county, especially in England.
• used in reference to parts of England regarded as strongholds of traditional rural culture, especially the rural Midlands.
• an administrative district in medieval times ruled jointly by an alderman and a sheriff.
• a rural area with its own elected council.
• A portion of Great Britain originally under the supervision of an earl; a territorial division, usually identical with a county, but sometimes limited to a smaller district; as, Wiltshire, Yorkshire, Richmondshire, Hallamshire.
• A division of a State, embracing several contiguous townships; a county.
• a former administrative district of England; equivalent to a county
• British breed of large heavy draft horse
• county
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a territorial division of Great Britain

Words related to SHIRE

county11 shired10 shires9 shiring11

Words that contain SHIRE

shired10 shires9 cheshire16 redshire12 shireman13 shiremen13 cheshires17 shiretown15 shiretowns16

How to use SHIRE in a sentence

• Society in the place was patriarchal as an English shire town.
• At the beginning of the reign of Henry II, the Shire courts seem to have been nearly as bad as they could be.
• The great barons who presided over the Shire courts found themselves practically robbed of power and influence.
• We drove through the parks, sailed up and down the Thames, and then visited every shire but four in England, in all of which we had large meetings, Mr.
• What changes took place in the government of the shire after the Norman Conquest? b.
• There must be representative government, for this purpose the county system, an inheritance from the ancient English shire, has furnished the needful machinery.
• Fingland is in the parish of Dalry, in the adjacent shire of Kirkcudbright, and Douglas was a somewhat near neighbor of Annie.
• It took its name from the Wylye and gave it to the shire.
• Known to me previously for years on the Zambesi and Shire it was a pleasure to have them with me for four months.
• Three weeks later writs were issued for a parliament which included four knights from every shire.
• The ordinances were published in every shire, and new ministers, chosen with the approval of the estates, deprived the king of the government of the country.
• The shire organisation, set up in an earlier generation, became little more than nominal.
• The Yorkshiremen had to defend their own shire while their best soldiers were with the king at Berwick.
• Authority and influence were exclusively with the knights of the shire, and the citizens and burgesses were content to allow the country gentry to speak and act in their name.
• Keighley, Henry of, knight of the shire for Lancashire.
• Concerning the right of appointing the Alderman of the Shire there is some uncertainty.
• The Shire horse, according to Sir Walter Gilbey, is the purest survival of the Great Horse of mediaeval times, known also as the War Horse, and the Old English Black Horse.
• The oldest and most respectable name for a County Representative is, KNIGHT OF THE SHIRE.
• A Knight of the Shire must have double the Estate required from a Representative of a Borough.
• In my own fancy, I have fixed its rise near the noted Shire Stones placed at the meeting point of the counties Westmoreland, Cumberland, and Lancashire.
• As these three belts determine the whole history and very existence of Sussex as an English shire, I shall make no apology for treating their origin here in some rapid detail.
• But every shire and every kingdom fought for itself alone.
• Every sheriff was to cause two knights to be elected from each shire, two citizens from each city, two burgesses from each borough.
• Here, and in parts of the lower Shire district, the annual rainfall probably does not exceed an average of 35 in.
• The last named was introduced by Arabs and Europeans, and is found on Lake Nyasa and on the lower Shire.
• The ordinary African rhinoceros is still occasionally, but very rarely, seen in the Shire Highlands, The African elephant is fairly common throughout the whole territory.
• There were at first four civil terms in the year, and, after Fitchburg became a half shire, there were two more terms held there.
• The chiefe Captaine of this small Fleete was Master Thomas Windham a Norffolke gentlemen borne, but dwelling at Marshfield-parke in Somerset shire.
• The fourth shire is called Xutiamfu, the principall Citie thereof is great Pachin, where the King is alwayes resident.

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