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▪ I. † feir Obs. Sc.
Also 4–6 fere, 5, 7 feare, 6 fier.
[aphet. f. effeir.]
Appearance, demeanour, look, show; = affere (affair 6), effeir n. 2.
c1440Gaw. & Gol. xiii, He wes ladlike of lait, and light of his fere. c1470Henry Wallace ix. 101 Tell me his feyr, and how I sall him knaw. c1500Felon Sowe Rokeby in Whitaker Hist. Craven (1805) 418 Scho rase up with a felon fere. 1528Lyndesay Dream 447 Quha wald behauld his countynance and feir, Mycht call hym, weill, the god of men of weir.
b. in feir of war: in martial array.
1449Sc. Acts Jas. II (1597) §25 Gif onie man..risis in feire of weir against him [the King]. 1550Lyndesay Sqr. Meldrum 1231 Thrie scoir..Accowterit weill in feir of weir. c1565Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (1728) 215 The Queen made proclamation..that all men should be at her in Fier of War.
c. pl. Gestures, ways, ‘points’ of a person's exterior.
c1375Barbour Troy-bk. ii. 2501 He kend him be his feris. Ibid. ii. 3003 With brokine speche and with waik feris. 1513Douglas æneis iii. ix. 14 Bot he was Greik be all his vthir feris. a1548Thrie Priests of Peblis in Pinkerton Scot. Poems (1792) I. 19 He feinyeit him ane fule, fond in his feris.
▪ II. feir
var. fere v. Obs. to appertain, be proper.
▪ III. feir
obs. and Sc. form of fear. |