pple. and a. [f. AIR + -ED.]

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  1.  Exposed to the open air, ventilated; heated so as to remove damp incurred by being in a damp air.

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a. 1540.  T. Cromwell, Care of Pr. Edward, in Athenæum, 3 Dec. (1842), 1040/1. Purely brushed, made clean, aired at the fire, and perfumed thoroughly.

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1616.  Surflet, Countrey Farme, 429. The more that oyle is ayred and stirred, so much the more clear it is.

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1722.  De Foe, Plague, 189. They caused the bales of goods to be opened and aired.

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1756.  Nugent, Grand Tour, IV. 22. Take particular care to see the sheets aired.

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1802.  Mar. Edgeworth, Mor. T. (1816), I. xvii. 141. To keep the room aired and swept.

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Mod.  ‘Well-aired beds.’

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  2.  fig.

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1611.  Shaks., Wint. T., IV. ii. 6. Though I haue (for the most part) bin ayred abroad, I desire to lay my bones there.

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  3.  -aired, in comb.: having an air (breath, manner, mien, tune) of a defined kind, as in well-aired.

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1505.  in National MSS., I. lxvi. The said quyne ys lyke for to be of a sewit savour, and well eyred.

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1674.  N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., 17. A right handsome address of words and well air’d periods.

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1879.  Daily News, 16 April, 3/1. A string of shaggy, supercilious-aired camels.

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1881.  Academy, 5 March, 167/3. A severe aunt and a grand-aired cousin.

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1882.  Exch. & Mart, 8 Jan., 91/3. Splendid eight-aired musical box.

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