||Ca`hier" (kȧ`y?" or
kȧ`hēr), n. [F., fr. OF.
cayer, fr. LL. quaternum. See Quire of
paper. The sheets of manuscript were folded into parts.]
1. A number of sheets of paper put loosely
together; esp. one of the successive portions of a work printed
in numbers.
2. A memorial of a body; a report of
legislative proceedings, etc.