Definition of "quare" []

• An obsolete form of quire. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• ""That was a quare business," he observed, using the word quare as an equivocal one, until he should see what views of the circumstance his master might take; "a quare business, sir, that happened to Mr. Reilly.""
• "There'll be a hole in the breeks of the other that'll tak a quare width of cloth to make a patch for it."
• "Rod 2.0 informs his readers of a new anthology devoted to Black Queer Studies where the neologism "quare" is posited as a replacement for the "queer" construct."