Definition of Sires

1. Noun. (plural of sire) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of sire) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sires

1. sire [v] - See also: sire

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sires

sirenical
sireniform
sirenise
sirenised
sirenises
sirenize
sirenized
sirenizes
sirenizing
sirenlike
sirenomelic
sirens
sirensong
sires (current term)
sirgang
sirgangs
siri
siriases
siriasis
siricid
siricids
sirihs
siring
siris tree
sirius
sirkar
sirkars

Literary usage of Sires

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Botanical Abstracts by Board of Control of Botanical Abstracts (1920)
"Of this number only 99 sires raise the butter-fat production of their ... The sires which raised the production of their daughters' butter fat most were ..."

2. Principles of Breeding: A Treatise on Thremmatology Or the Principles and by Eugene Davenport, Henry Lewis Rietz (1907)
"so that about 3 per cent of the sires have produced the sires and dams of ... If we should add the produce of the sires and the dams, we should have 16536 + ..."

3. The Conqueror and His Companions by James Robinson Planché (1874)
"... the sires de St. Jean and de Breal, the Sire de Breus and two hundred of his men, the sires ... and the sires de Saie, the sires de la Fert and the Sire ..."

4. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1892)
"It is further in evidence that on the 14th of February, 1866, the said BSD Muckenfuss executed and delivered to Francis sires his bond for two thousand ..."

5. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1861)
"The men that won at Lexington Let he who dare retard it ; No cowards here grow pale with fear, A name and fame in story, Were patriot sires, who lit the ..."

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