ire

noun

1. (obsolete, uncountable)Iron.

   “[…] 'Tell I'm rud as the smith makes the pieces of ire; […]”

   “A ire thing, moore smart by haff, / That zeed var off 's za theene 's a laff, / An' zum zes edden' 'xac'ly saff, / Stan's in th' place ee did.”

2. (uncountable)Great anger; wrath; keen resentment.

   “to raise the ire of someone”

   “She lik'd not his desire; Fain would be free but dreadeth parents ire”

   “If I digg'd up thy forefathers graves, And hung their rotten coffins up in chains, It could not slake mine ire, nor ease my heart.”

   “Or Neptune's ire, or Juno's, that so long Perplex'd the Greek and Cytherea's son.”

   “For this th' avenging Pow'r employs his darts; / And empties all his quiver in our hearts; / Thus will perſiſt, relentleſs in his ire, / Till the fair ſlave be render'd to her ſire: [...]”

verb

1. (rare, transitive)To anger, to irritate.

   “It doesn't tire a man to put down a carpet so much as it ires him.”

   “I heard enough from the gentleman who has just taken his seat, and from my friend, Dr. Caldwell, to ire me just a little bit.”

   ““You have enemies. Is that why you have chosen to leave at this time?” It ired me that he should think so, but I held my peace, and when I spoke at last, my voice was mild.”

   “Only one employee testified as to the interrogation. This was Mary Farley who testified that at the time the research interviewer reached her home she was entertaining company and that she was “ired” by the interruption.”

   “Mr. Gray (Bonaventure–Îles-de-la-Madeleine): Mr. Speaker, [...] Having been in the House of Commons for seven and one-half years and regardless of political stripe, the thing that angers and ires me the most is to hear downtown metro people talking […]”

name

1. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Ireland (Republic of Ireland).
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism)Initialism of Institute of Radio Engineers.
3. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Irish English.

   “Quite a number of EE urban and rural dialects, educated English speech, IrE, and ScotE cannot be ruled out.”

   “Like ScotE, IrE has certain word stress patterns that differ from RP (in -ise verbs, for example), but there are few categorical differences and a great deal of variability.”