lairing

Verb (1)

lair (third-person singular simple present lairs, present participle lairing, simple past and past participle laired)

1. (UK) To rest; to dwell.
   • The lee-light that December gies
     Was lairing in the wast,
     Whan Christy wi' her oa claes,
     Was boun' to dree the blast.1822, Hew Ainslie, “The Waesome Death O' Christy Ford”, in A Pilgrimage to the Land of Burns, Deptford: W. Brown, page 42
2. (UK) To lay down.
3. (UK) To bury.

Verb (2)

lair (third-person singular simple present lairs, present participle lairing, simple past and past participle laired)

1. (Scotland, transitive) To mire.
2. (Scotland, intransitive) To become mired.

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