quire

1. (bookbinding) To prepare quires by stitching together leaves of paper.Examples: "Now, in the first folio volume of 1616, the paging, signatures, and quiring are continuous and regular throughout."; "This is a natural point at which to ask why quiring went out of fashion."; "By means of these smooth pages we can mostly see how the modern binder made up the book, but whether in doing this he followed the original quiring is quite another matter."

1. (architecture) One quarter of a cruciform church, or the architectural area of a church, generally used by the choir; often near the apse.

1. (poetic) Alternative form of choir (“to sing in concert”).Examples: "Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven / Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold: / There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st / But in his motion like an angel sings, / Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins; / Such harmony is in immortal souls; / But whilst this muddy vesture of decay / Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it."; "I saw the 'potamus take wing / Ascending from the damp savannas, / And quiring angels round him sing / The praise of God, in loud hosannas."; "He went on down the hill, toward the dark woods within which the liquid silver voices of the birds called unceasing-the rapid and urgent beating of the urgent and quiring heart of the late spring night."alt-ofalternativepoetic