Obs. rare–1. [ad. med.L. tyria, tiria, ? fem. of Tyrius TYRIAN.] Name of a kind of leprosy: see quot.
1547. Boorde, Brev. Health, cccxlix. (1557), 112 b. One of the kyndes of Leprousnes named Tiria. Tiria is the Latin worde. In Englyshe it is named the tyre or the propertie of an adder which is full of skales, so is this kynde of leprousnes full of skales and scabbes, corodyng the fleshe.
