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1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates 563 (T.) Air-threat'ning tops of cedars tall.

1591 E. Spenser Muiopotmos in Complaints sig. V^v The woods, the riuers, and the medowes green, With his aire-cutting wings he measured wide.

1647 H. More Philos. Poems iii. xxxvi Air-trampling ghosts.

1651 H. Vaughan Olor Iscanus 4 Chameleons of state, Aire-monging band, Whose breath (like Gun-powder) blowes up a land.

1768 A. Dour tr. 'Inayat Allah Tales I. i. 32 He, one day, according to custom, mounted his air-treading steed, turning to the chace of the..wing-beating travellers of the unbounded air.

1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. II. §619 Air-conveying tubes, known under the name of tracheæ.

1865 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 28 Let me be to Thee as the circling bird, Or bat with tender and air-crisping wings.

1882 Macmillan's Mag. 45 500 Powerful air-pumping engines.

1926 Lancet 26 June 1292/1 The ‘Deodos’ Air Cleanser. The purpose of this apparatus is to purify and medicate the air of rooms and buildings by means of a vapour.

1956 Gloss. Terms Concrete (B.S.I.) 7 Air-entraining agent, an admixture to Portland cement or to concrete which causes a small quantity of air to be incorporated..in the concrete during mixing.

1962 Which? Car Suppl. Oct. 139/1 Stones [were] found in air cleaner.

2004 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 11 Dec. l3/5 The lamp was originally developed in France in 1898 as an air purifier for hospitals.