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unˈaired, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
†1. Untravelled. Obs.—1 (Cf. aired ppl. a. 2.)
a1616Beaum. & Fl. Q. Corinth ii. iv, Be not so improvident To forget your travelling pace, 'tis a main posture, And to all unayr'd Gentlemen will betray you.
2. Not exposed to the air or to heat so as to remove stagnant air or damp. (Cf. air v. 1, 2.)
1682Otway Venice Preserved iii. ii, What feminine Tale hast thou been listening to, Of unayr'd shirts; Catharrs and Tooth Ach got By thin-sol'd shoos. 1740Mrs. Delany in Life & Corr. (1861) II. 122 We are, I think, too much invalids to go into an unaired house. 1763Brit. Mag. IV. 405 The ladies were under terrible apprehensions about damp sheets and unaired beds. 1826Scott Woodst. iii, The state-rooms are unaired, and in indifferent order. 1865Trollope Belton Est. ix. 95 She had been wrong to go into such a place as the cold, unaired Court House. |