sire
/saɪə(ɹ)/ noun C2- A lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders and superiors, later only when addressing a sovereign.
- A male animal that has fathered a particular offspring (especially used of domestic animals and in biological research).
- The vampire who turned another person.
Plural sires
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Farewell, O brother, sister, sire!
He had not yet taken the measure of this sire of his, who was as full of unexpectednesses as a girl at her first party.
“That I am exceedingly disquieted, sire.”
“No, sire, for that would only betoken for us seven years of plenty and seven years of scarcity; and with a king as full of foresight as your majesty, scarcity is not a thing to be feared.”
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