Definition of hire

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Hire (n.) To grant the temporary use of, for compensation; to engage to give the service of, for a price; to let; to lease; -- now usually with out, and often reflexively; as, he has hired out his horse, or his time..

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Mercenary :: Mercenary (a.) Acting for reward; serving for pay; paid; hired; hireling; venal; as, mercenary soldiers..
Hackney :: Hackney (n.) A hired drudge; a hireling; a prostitute.
Slickensides :: Slickensides (n.) A variety of galena found in Derbyshire, England..
Prostitute :: Prostitute (n.) A base hireling; a mercenary; one who offers himself to infamous employments for hire.
#NAME? :: -ling () A noun suffix, commonly having a diminutive or a depreciatory force; as in duckling, gosling, hireling, fosterling, firstling, underling..
Hutchunsonian :: Hutchunsonian (n.) A follower of John Hutchinson of Yorkshire, England, who believed that the Hebrew Scriptures contained a complete system of natural science and of theology..
Wash :: Wash (n.) A piece of ground washed by the action of a sea or river, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh; a fen; as, the washes in Lincolnshire..
Epichiremata :: Epichiremata (pl. ) of Epichirem.
Hire :: Hire (n.) To grant the temporary use of, for compensation; to engage to give the service of, for a price; to let; to lease; -- now usually with out, and often reflexively; as, he has hired out his horse, or his time..
Macrochires :: Macrochires (n. pl.) A division of birds including the swifts and humming birds. So called from the length of the distal part of the wing.
Devonian :: Devonian (a.) Of or pertaining to Devon or Devonshire in England; as, the Devonian rocks, period, or system..
Lend :: Lend (v. t.) To let for hire or compensation; as, to lend a horse or gig..
Longmynd Rocks :: Longmynd rocks () The sparingly fossiliferous conglomerates, grits, schists, and states of Great Britain, which lie at the base of the Cambrian system; -- so called, because typically developed in the Longmynd Hills, Shropshire..
Sapphire :: Sapphire (a.) Of or resembling sapphire; sapphirine; blue.
Hack :: Hack (n.) A bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
Courtesan :: Courtesan (n.) A woman who prostitutes herself for hire; a prostitute; a harlot.
Fly :: Fly (v. i.) A kind of light carriage for rapid transit, plying for hire and usually drawn by one horse..
Bondmaid :: Bondmaid (n.) A female slave, or one bound to service without wages, as distinguished from a hired servant..
Letter :: Letter (n.) One who lets or permits; one who lets anything for hire.
Job :: Job (v. i.) To do chance work for hire; to work by the piece; to do petty work.
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