Definition: eyre

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Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Eyre \Eyre\ ([^a]r), n. [OF. erre journey, march, way, fr. L.
   iter, itineris, a going, way, fr. the root of ire to go. Cf.
   Errant, Itinerant, Issue.] (O. Eng. Law)
   A journey in circuit of certain judges called justices in
   eyre (or in itinere).

   Note: They were itinerant judges, who rode the circuit,
         holding courts in the different counties.