\Quire\, n.
See {Choir}. [Obs.] --Spenser.
      A quire of such enticing birds.          --Shak.

\Quire\, v. i.
To sing in concert. [R.] --Shak.

\Quire\, n. [OE. quaer, quair, OF. quayer, cayer,
ca["i]er, F. cahier, a book of loose sheets, a quarter of a
quire, LL. quaternus, quaternum, sheets of paper packed
together, properly, four together, fr. L. quaterni four each,
by fours, quattuor, four. See {Four} and cf. {Cahier}.]
A collection of twenty-four sheets of paper of the same size
and quality, unfolded or having a single fold; one twentieth
of a ream.