Esquire, As a Verb;

Verb

esquire (third-person singular simple present esquires, present participle esquiring, simple past and past participle esquired)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To attend, wait on, escort.

Etymology 2

Old French esquiere, esquierre, esquarre (“a square”) (whence modern French équerre), perhaps via a form like based esquire from bas d'esquire ("bottom of a square"), whence attested forms base (e)squire, e(s)quire bast.

The arms of Mortimer, barry of six or and azure on a chief of the first two pallets between two base esquires of the second, over all an inescutcheon argent.

Noun

esquire (plural esquires)

1. (heraldry, rare) The lower of the halves into which a square is divided diagonally, a single gyron, but potentially larger (extending across the shield) or smaller (for example, on Mortimer's arms). quotations ▼

References

• “esquire”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “esquire”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume II (D–Hoon), revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Further reading

• esquire on Wikipedia.

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