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Definition of Speir
1. v. i. To ask. See Spere.
Definition of Speir
1. to speer [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: speer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Speir
Literary usage of Speir
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. New Cases Selected Chiefly from Decisions of the Courts of the State of New York by Austin Abbott, James MacGregor Smith (1878)
"speir. of chancery of the State of New Jersey are the same, or substantially the
... speir. NY Supreme Court, General Term, First Department; October, 1877. ..."
2. The National Review edited by Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot (1857)
"Want of care and consistency in the orthography of Sanskrit names is the only
fault with which we have to charge Mrs. speir. She writes them now according ..."
3. The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland by Scotland Privy Council, Peter Hume Brown, Evan Whyte Melville Balfour-Melville, Henry Paton (1906)
"... hard or knew aney sik blott or blame to the said James speir, Gabriel Edinburgh
att the instance of Capitane ..."
4. Yearbook by Episcopal Church in Scotland, Free Church of Scotland (1899)
"Convener— The Marquis of Lothian, KT ; Vice-Convener—RTN speir of Culdees. ...
HOME MISSIONS—RTN speir, Convener. EDUCATION—Rev. JM Danson, DD, Convener. ..."
5. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the by James Terry White (1895)
"speir, Samuel Fleet, physician, was born in Brooklyn, NY, Apr. 9, 1838. He was
the son of Robert and Hannah speir, his father being a native of New York, ..."
6. Buffalo Medical Journal (1866)
"Specimens by Dr. SF speir. DR. speir presented a specimen of diverticulum from
the pericardium. The patient was a female, and had been complaining for ..."
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