sire

noun

1. 1

   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.

2. 2

   A male animal that has fathered a particular offspring (especially used of domestic animals and in biological research).

3. 3

   obsoleteA father; the head of a family; the husband.

   He but a Duke, would haue his Sonne a King, / And raiſe his iſſue like a louing Sire.

4. 4

   obsoleteA creator; a maker; an author; an originator.

   Most musical of mourners, weep again! / Lament anew, Urania!—He died, / Who was the sire of an immortal strain, […]

5. 5

   The vampire who turned another person.

   There is a toxin in a vampire’s fangs that will infect its victim when the sire drinks deeply and fully of their blood.

   Ever since Antonio’s escape from his sire in 1942, he had never been tempted to return to the vampire fold.

   “She is my sire. I cannot defy her as long as she is more powerful than me.”

verb

1. 1

   To father; to beget.

   In these travels, my father sired thirteen children in all, four boys and nine girls.

2. 2

   To turn (another person) into a vampire.

   “Do you think they were wannabes, then? Groupies who found a willing vamp to sire them?”

   He wondered if she regretted siring him. Or marrying him.

   I'd never sired another vampire before and I was at a loss of what to do with the rats.

Forms

plural

sires

past tense

sired

past participle

sired

present participle

siring

third person singular

sires