(n.) A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.
(n.) A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See Esquire.
(n.) A male attendant on a great personage; also (Colloq.), a devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau.
(n.) A title of office and courtesy. See under Esquire.
(v. t.) To attend as a squire.
(v. t.) To attend as a beau, or gallant, for aid and protection; as, to squire a lady.
Example Sentences:
(1) Brown went on to create six albums, bassist Mani joined Primal Scream, while Squire, who created the artwork for the band's first album, formed the short-lived Seahorses before deciding to concentrate on art.
(2) Dr Sanjay Sharma, professor of cardiology at St George's hospital and the medical director of the London marathon, was on the scene when Squires collapsed.
(3) But while Hirst is an unlikely country squire, he is not alone in making such an improbable journey.
(4) • Work with advertisers to co-develop new advertising forms that Squires expects will be more immersive with the power of digital delivery.
(5) Squires is leaving Time Inc to serve as interim director while the CEO search is conducted.
(6) The one word, "Willie", came to conjure up a decent, slightly slow, endlessly courteous country squire, who liked his food and drink and got on with everyone he dealt with - no mean feat for someone educated at that supremely elitist institution, Winchester.
(7) William McKenna, a professor at the University College London hospitals trust, who reviewed Squires' medical records, said he thought the irregular heartbeat was "a red herring" and that the substance found in the blood was "an important factor in the outcome".
(8) The National Farmers Union is taking legal advice to try to get compensation for the region's farmers but regional director Melanie Squires said they were having a "torrid time" making any headway with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
(9) Squires was the 11th participant to die since the event began 31 years ago.
(10) With the Squire-Brown friendship rekindled and Reni back on drums and backing vocals, they have a point to prove: that a Third Coming can be done with dignity, and that the once-mighty Stone Roses can be The Best Band On The Planet once again.
(11) The meaty melodies are provided by John Squire, pinning down the guitar surging from caustic feedback to ecstatic wah-wah chugging – all in the space of a song.
(12) After the inquest Van Herrewege said the finding had left Squires' family and himself "numb".
(13) Two years ago, Brown said Squire tried to end the feud by writing him a song - but he refused to record it.
(14) In a statement read out to the inquest, Squires's father, Paul, said his daughter had experienced two convulsions when she was three and five.
(15) Renowned for his wit, he could speak four languages fluently and, during the late 40s and early 50s, squired a succession of jet-setting beauties, including socialite Pamela Digby Churchill Harriman, Rita Hayworth and Anita Ekberg.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Squire Cabell’s tomb in Buckfastleigh Leaving Buckfastleigh, we drive up on to Dartmoor in a biting wind.
(17) Professor William McKenna, of the University College London hospitals trust, who reviewed Squires' medical records, said he had found "significant levels" of the amphetamine-like substance in her blood.
(18) In the general case of unequal initial links, the model derived from melioration differs from the revised model advanced by Squires and Fantino (1971) only in the factors affecting the delay-reduction terms (T - t2L) and (T - t2R).
(19) David Squires on … football's proposed trials of video replays Read more QPR have accepted Liverpool’s offer of a loan deal until the end of the season and Caulker returned to Loftus Road on Tuesday to officially cancel his terms with Southampton.
(20) Jack3d was banned in August last year, four months after Squires' death, after concerns over a stimulant called DMAA (dimethylamylamine) found in the powder.
Squirm
Definition:
(v. i.) To twist about briskly with contor/ions like an eel or a worm; to wriggle; to writhe.
Example Sentences:
(1) The talk coming from senior Tories – at least some of whom have the grace to squirm when questioned on this topic – suggesting that it's all terribly complicated, that it was a long time ago and that even SS members were, in some ways, themselves victims, is uncomfortably close to the kind of prattle we used to hear from those we called Holocaust revisionists.
(2) He cut in and provided a pass for Sneijder, whose shot squirmed wide off Rodríguez; he then clipped a ball in that just evaded Sneijder; and soon after that he appealed for another penalty.
(3) And yet for all his anti-establishment credentials, Mr Galloway is as practised as any of his New Labour enemies at squirming away from awkward questions.
(4) If the thought of eating fermented cabbage makes you squirm, then perhaps you're not ready for it – but plenty of others are.
(5) The Spurs were missing simple shots but insidiously squirmed their way back into the game, with James returning to Earth and Leonard in fine shooting form.
(6) But it squirms about conceding them to people it does not approve of.
(7) [Parkinson's] makes me squirm and it makes my pants ride up so my socks are showing and my shoes fall off and I can't get the food up to my mouth when I want to."
(8) President Andrzej Duda and Beata Szydło, the prime minister, take their orders from him and squirm for his approval.
(9) He could only squirm in the stands as Robbie Keane lofted the clearest chance of the game into the face of Mark Schwarzer, who also foiled Kuyt and Torres.
(10) Bodies squirmed with the embarrassment of eye contact and personal honesty.
(11) But the wording was left deliberately ambiguous and before the ink was dry on the statement, senior German officials, being grilled in Brussels by gobsmacked German journalists, were squirming and heavily qualifying the promise to shore up banks directly.
(12) In the last photos of her, taken barely 10 minutes before the Russian bombs landed, she shows off a new bracelet and freshly painted nails with glee, then squeezes a kiss from her squirming baby sister.
(13) For Cahun was a writer, first and foremost – and no amount of artistic squirming could change that.
(14) The Friday afternoon audience for the film of John Green’s The Fault In Our Stars was squirming with more anticipation than any audience I’ve seen since the first screening of Endless Love in July 1981.
(15) From the rebound, Lennon's shot deflected off Colback, hit the post and squirmed to safety.
(16) But corporations, which thrive on their sense of power and control, hate nothing more than having to say sorry unless they are forced to do so because they are squirming on the end of a hook for doing something particularly reprehensible.
(17) With five minutes remaining Aleksandar Kolarov took aim from outside the area and hit the attempt straight at Jonathan Bond, only for the ball to squirm under the goalkeeper and into the net.
(18) A Russia free-kick from just inside the halfway line lands evades a Spanish defender and land at Pavlychenko's feet about eight yards out, but he squirms his shot just wide.
(19) Team Miliband squirms a bit at this, not entirely sure if it might not be so.
(20) Branson has even smoked weed with Sam, a revelation that continues to make his son squirm.