squire

A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.

A Squire he had, whose name was Ralph[.]

A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See esquire.

A male attendant on a great personage.

A landowner from the English gentry during the early modern period.

Third Suitor was Young Country Squire, well born, Perſon indifferent, Cloaths (fondly worn)[.]

A devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau.

To attend as a squire.

To attend as a beau, or gallant, for aid and protection.

[O]n ſome occaſions, he diſplayed all his fund of good humour, vvith a vievv to beguile her ſorrovv; he importuned her to give him the pleasure of ’ſquiring her to ſome place of innocent entertainment; and, finally, inſiſted upon her accepting a pecuniary reinforcement to her finances, vvhich he knevv to be in a moſt conſumptive condition.

Perceiving, however, that I had on my best wig, she offered, if I would ’squire her there, to send home the footman.

A ruler; a carpenter's square; a measure.

But temperaunce, said he, with golden squire, / Betwixt them both can measure out a meane.

do not you know my lady's foot by the squire.