1505 Instr. Henry VII to Ambassadors in Facsimiles National MSS (1865) I. 96 The saide Quyne ys lyke for to be of a sewit savour and well eyred.

1568 G. Buchanan Indictm. Mary Queen of Scots (1923) 39 The house quhair the King wes nurisset wes evill ayrit.

1606 J. Ford Fames Memoriall sig. G3 Dye thoughts of empty ayr'd ambition.

1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 17 A right handsome address of words and well air'd periods.

1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 146 The winds Blown o'er the keen-air'd mountain by the north.

1818 S. E. Ferrier Marriage I. xii. 137 Stay a wee till she gets to Clackandow! there's no a finer, freer-aired situation in a' Scotland.

1879 Daily News 16 Apr. 3/1 A string of shaggy, supercilious-aired camels.

1882 Exch. & Mart 8 Jan. 91/3 Splendid eight-aired musical box.

1911 Washington Post (Electronic text) 19 Nov. 6/3 No exercise in the play park can overcome the injury from studying in foul aired schoolrooms or sleeping in closed apartments.

1987 M. Dorris Yellow Raft in Blue Water (1988) v. 66 I follow him into the oil-smelling, dead-aired office and sit on a..chair.

2006 Mojo Dec. 76/1 Jones..upped sticks to the north coast of Cornwall where he recorded this collection of salt-aired spookery, for his own label.

1578 W. Darell Short Disc. Life Seruingmen sig. C.iij When thou comest at night to thy Inne, haue care of thy maister, that his lodging may in any wise be sweete and cleanly, his sheetes white washed, and verie well ayred.

1603 T. Lodge Treat. Plague vii. sig. E4^v This is the order and maner which euery one ought to obserue..that the houses be kept cleane and well ayred, and be perfumed with water and vinegar.

1623 W. Traheron & E. Grimeston tr. P. Mexia Imperiall Hist. 638 Lewes Ferrier..could neuer get her to lodge in any wel-aired chamber, but she would still lurk in some dark place neere the ground.

1631 W. Lisle Faire Æthiopian ii. 38 Other maids attend them..And make their bed, and lay them aired sheets.

1677 E. Coles Dict. Eng.-Lat. Ayred, soli vel igni ad siccandum expositus, ad solem vel ignem siccatus.

1705 tr. Whole Art of Dying 113 We shall distinctly explain, 1. the Dryness. 2. the Weight, 3. the Moistness, 4. the Aired, 5. the Drowned, and 6. the twice dryed Ashes.

1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 173 To keep the room aired and swept.

1874 W. H. Greenwood Man. Metall. I. ix. 160 Aired and glazed bars are unfit for melting into best cast-steel, and require reconverting.

1920 C. Carswell Open Door! i. vii. 108 Even the Foresta had its shutters barred, though the careful padrone walked through the house each day throwing them open to the sunshine for a few hours to keep the place aired.

1937 D. L. Sayers Busman's Honeymoon i. 56 It won't take me a minnit to put on the clean sheets, which is all laying aired and ready at the cottage.

1996 A. Raife Drumveyn xviii. 141 He had been coming up as often as he could at weekends, first staying in the house, then bothying in the aired and scrubbed flat.