poet. [f. prec. sb.]
intr. To sing, as a choir; to sing in chorus.
1596. Shaks., Merch. V., V. i. 62. Still quiring to the young eyed Cherubins.
1610. G. Fletcher, Christ’s Vict. (new ed.), IV. ii. Among whose infant leaves the joyous birds do quire [1st ed. conspire].
1804. Grahame, Sabbath (1839), 22/2. With sweet response harmoniously they [seraphim] choir’d.
b. trans.
1791. E. Darwin, Bot. Gard., I. 18. To the sacred Sun, Spontaneous Concords quired the matin strain.
c. intr. To resound, as music sung by a choir.
1838. D. Moir, Casa’s Dirge, Poet. Wks. 1861, I. 29. Where the psalm and song of angels choir abroad.
Hence Choiring, quiring vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
a. 1774. Fergusson, Poems, Conscience, 1. No choiring warblers flutter in the sky.
a. 1843. Campbell, Poems, View fr. St. Leonard’s, 133. In thundering Concert with the quiring winds.
1843. E. Jones, Sens. & Event, 61. Oceanic choirings.
1875. B. Taylor, Faust, I. iii. 60. Hark, the … Sound of their quiring.
