Obs. Forms: 5 eyer, 7 eyre, ayre. [f. prec. sb. Cf. to nest.] trans. and intr. To build an aerie, to breed as a falcon.
1472. J. Paston, in Lett., 708, III. 68. To cast hyr in to some wood, wher as I wyll have hyr to eyer.
1616. [See prec.]
1652. Ashmole, Theatr. Chem. Brit., xxxvi. 220. I was eyred and bred in swete Paradyce.
