n. [ OE. lire, OF. lyre, L. lyra, Gr. &unr_;. Cf. Lyra. ]
☞ The lyre was the peculiar instrument of Apollo, the tutelary god of music and poetry. It gave name to the species of verse called lyric, to which it originally furnished an accompaniment. [ 1913 Webster ]
Lyre bat (Zool.),
Lyre turtle (Zool.),
pos>n. (Zool.) Any one of two or three species of Australian birds of the genus
(Bot.) n. A garden plant (Dicentra spectabilis) having deep-pink drooping heart-shaped flowers.
‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;. ] (Bot.) A genus of evergreen plants growing along the shores of the Mediterranean, and bearing a fruit resembling that of the olive. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ AS. spear-lira. ] The calf of the leg. [ Obs. ] Wyclif (Deut. xxviii. 35). [ 1913 Webster ]