Middle English Dictionary Entry
airī adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | airī adj. Also eiri, aiery, aery, hery. |
| Etymology | From air n.(1). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Of air, air-like; of the air or atmosphere, atmospheric, aerial; (b) containing or admitting air; (c) having the properties of the 'element' air.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)25a/a : Þe hering is..aiery, for alwey it is Igendrid by aier I smyte.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)133b/b : Þe norþerne wynde..meueþ eyry þingis and makeþ hem sotile.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)209a/b : Plente of more humour, fatty, ayery [L aerei], and swete.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)258b/b : A best, wheþur it be ayry as fowil or wattry as fissh.
- (1449) Metham AC (Gar 141)629 : The spyrytys aery [i.e. Jupiter, Venus, etc.].
b
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)54a/b : Þe longe is Imaad of softe fleische and ayery, ful liche to foome.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)11b/b : Þe 4a humour..in þe region of þe apple [of the eye], etherum i. aery, shynyng, & alle spumous or ful of spirite.
c
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)31a/a : By maistrie of gret drines, þe parties þat beþ aiery [L aeree] & wattry beþ I made þicke.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)162b/b : Medlyng of firy and aery parties.
- c1465(?1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)13b : Calamynte ys an herbe..þere bethe iij speces of þis erbe: þat one is stony, þat oþer is hery, and þe þirde watrye.
- (1449) Metham AC (Gar 141)287 : Jouys, fyry; Juno, aery; Neptunus, wattry; Pluto, erthy.