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faird
faird
Scots
Noun
faird (plural fairds)
- Force of movement, impetus, rush, onset.[1][2]
- 1681, Samuel Colvil, Mock Poem; or, Whiggs’ Supplication
- None gained by those bloody fairds / But two three Beggers who turn’d Lairds.
- 1681, Samuel Colvil, Mock Poem; or, Whiggs’ Supplication
References
- ↑ “faird” in Sir William Alexander Craigie, Adam Jack Aitken, James AC Stevenson and Margaret G. Dareau, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: From the 12th Century to the End of the 17th, OUP, 2002.
- ↑ J[ohn] A. Simpson and E[dward] S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ISBN 978-0-19-861186-8.