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ˈairish, a.
[f. air n. + -ish. Cf. Spanish.]
†1. Of or belonging to the air; aerial, aereous. Obs.
c1384Chaucer H. Fame 964 And behelde the ayerissh bestes [v.r. ayryssh, ayrisshe, eyrysshe]. 1551Turner Herbal ii. 165 Viscum is made of an aerishe, waterishe hote nature. 1612T. James Jesuits' Downf. 61 He was not a meere man; but some Fairies brat, or begotten by an Incubus, or aerish spirit, vpon the bodie of a base woman.
2. Cool, fresh.
1641Best Farm. Bks. (1856) 18 Betwixt 8 and 9 of the clocke; and not afore, because the morninges are airish. 1882J. H. Beadle Western Wilds xxxviii. 613 Going westward on any line one will find the winters growing dryer, also more ‘airish’. 1885‘C. E. Craddock’ Prophet Gt. Smoky Mts. 267 It air toler'ble airish in the fog. |