Quires is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 81 anagrams from letters in quires (eiqrsu).
1175-1225; Middle English quayer Middle French quaier Vulgar Latin *quaternum set of four sheets, derivative of Latin quarternī four each
Ive sold me four and five quires a-day, but I dont sell above two and three dozen a-day now.
Oh, yes, I knowd old Jemmy Catnach fast enough—bought many hundreds, if not thousands of quires of him.
There were reams of well-meant advice and quires of threats of violence.
I am to send him the quires as fast as I finish them off, and the first is now in his hands.
It is as near poetry as I can hope to get this side the harps and quires.
In the 11th century catch-words were used to show the connection of the quires.
Stationers used to let out on hire parts of books or quires.
Fine white vellum, 192 leaves, in 19 quires of ten leaves each and two additional leaves at the end, the last of which is blank.
This marginal note in MS. 1566, occurs in one of the re-written sets or quires, and is in the same hand with the text.
Only two quires are now remaining: the handwriting is not the same, but similar.