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gment of to beguile; to impose on; to dupe; to make a fool of. To delude the nation by an airy phantom. Burke.

To testify under oath; to depose; to bear witness. [A Scotticism] The fairy Glorians, whose credibility on this point can not be called in question, depones to the confinement of Merlin in a tree. Dunlop.

A servant who has charge of the dairy; a dairymaid. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To take from a cradle. [R.] This airy apparition first discradled From Tournay into Portugal. Ford.

Fine, soft, hairy outgrowth from the skin or surface of animals or plants, not matted and fleecy like wool; esp.:

n unreal, delightful country such as in sometimes pictured in dreams; region of fancies; fairyland. [He] builds a bridge from dreamland for his lay. Lowell.

A species of pea (Amphicarpæa monoica). It is a climbing leguminous plant, with hairy underground pods.

lion had not eaten the carcass. 1 Kings xiii. 28. With stories told of many a feat, How fairy Mab junkets eat. Milton. The island princes overbold Have eat our substance. Tennyson. His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages. Thackeray.

The flying feathery or hairy crown of seeds or achenes, as the down of the thistle.

An imaginary supernatural being, commonly a little sprite, much like a fairy; a mythological diminutive spirit, supposed to haunt hills and wild places, and generally represented as delighting in mischievous tricks. Every elf, and fairy sprite, Hop as light as bird from brier. Shak.

Fairyland. Tennyson.

Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as form, manner, thought, etc. Vast chain of being, which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man. Pope.

The brow or hairy arch above the eye. Shak.

Fairy. [Archaic] Spenser.

In the manner of a fairy. Numerous as shadows haunting fairily The brain. Keats.

Hairy. [Obs.] amden.

A fairy; an elf. "Yellow-skirted fays." Milton.

feit; false; not genuine; as, fictitious fame. The human persons are as fictitious as the airy ones. Pope. -- Fic*ti"tious*ly, adv. -- Fic*ti"tious*ness, n.

To make f [Obs.] All his hairy breast with blood was filed.Spenser. For Banquo's issue have I filed mind.Shak.

Something hard to be caught or detained. Or Catch that airy fugitive called wit. Harte. Fugitive from justice (Law), one who, having committed a crime in one jurisdiction, flees or escapes into another to avoid punishment.