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lair(1) (iou)



lair noun1.
[Old English leger = Old Frisian leger situation, Old Saxon legar bed (Dutch leger bed, camp, LEAGUER noun1), Old High German leger bed, camp (German Lager, infl. by Lage situation), Gothic ligis, from Germanic base of LIE verb1.]
The action or fact of lying or lying down. OE-M18.
A grave, a tomb. Now only Scot., a plot in a graveyard. OE.
A place where one sleeps; a bed, a couch. OE.
Carlyle Wretchedness..shivers hunger-stricken into its lair of straw.
A resting-place for domestic animals; spec. an enclosure or large shed for cattle on the way to market. LME.
A place of rest or concealment for a wild animal; transf. a (secret) retreat or base. LME.
beard the lion in his lair: see BEARD verb 1.
J. Hilton The tribesmen Kept you in some lair in the mountains.
Agriculture. Nature or kind of soil, with reference to its effect on the quality of crops, or of the animals pastured upon it. LME.