noun The male parent of a beast: used especially of stallions, but also of bulls, dogs, and other domestic animals: generally with dam as the female parent. noun A breed; a growth: as, a good sire of pigs, or of cabbages. To beget; procreate: used now chiefly of beasts, and espec...
...evidently very aged,—for its face and ears were gray, the rest of it a rusty reddish black; it had immensely long ears, pricked up like horns; it was a dog that must have been brought from foreign parts; it might have come from Acheron,sireby Cerberus, so portentous, and (if...