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Consisting of air; as, an airy substance; the airy parts of bodies.

version into butter and cheese. Grounds were turned much in England either to feeding or dairy; and this advanced the trade of English butter. Temple.

The business of conducting a dairy.

A female servant whose business is the care of the dairy.

A man who keeps or takes care of a dairy.

A woman who attends to a dairy.

antment; illusion. [Obs.] Chaucer. The God of her has made an end, And fro this worlde's fairy Hath taken her into company. Gower.

The imaginary land or abode of fairies.

Resembling a fairy, or what is made or done be fairies; as, fairylike music.

Like glair, or partaking of its qualities; covered with glair; viscous and transparent; slimy. Wiseman.

resembling hair; rough with hair; rough with hair; rough with hair; hirsute. His mantle hairy, and his bonnet sedge. Milton.

Charged with vair; variegated with shield-shaped figures. See Vair.

led annual aberration, when the observer's motion is that of the earth in its orbit, and dairy or diurnal aberration, when of the earth on its axis; amounting when greatest, in the former case, to 20.4'', and in the latter, to 0.3''. Planetary aberration is that due to the motion of light and the motion of the planet r…

pposed to have been the progenitors of the Japanese. The Ainos are stout and short, with hairy bodies.

In an airy manner; lightly; gaily; jauntily; fippantly.

The state or quality of being airy; openness or exposure to the air; as, the airiness of a country seat.

A European bat (Barbastellus communis), with hairy lips.

Having a beard; bearded; hairy.

To warm by continued exposure to heat; to warm with genial heat. Basks at the fire his hairy strength. Milton.

-- Bear baiting, the sport of baiting bears with dogs. -- Bear caterpillar (Zoöl.), the hairy larva of a moth, esp. of the genus Euprepia. -- Bear garden. (a) A place where bears are kept for diversion or fighting. (b) Any place where riotous conduct is common or permitted. M. Arnold. -- Bear leader, one who leads a…