Noun: ayre
Sample Sentences
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It is precisely to this—not destruction, but dissolution—(for dissolve is the poet's word) this melting into thin ayre, of the world itself, that Tooke maintains the word rack, i. e. reek, to be most- appropriate. And I think he was right in so doing. [1856, Notes and Queries, page 425:]
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... Thus giues his sorrowes passage from his brest ; Sweet leaues (qd. he) which with the ayre doe tremble, Oh how your motions do my thoughts resemble, With that milde breath by which onely moue, Whisper my words in silence to my Loue ... [1870, Michael Drayton, Endimion and Phoebe: Ideas Latmus:]
Nouns inflected like ayre
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From an unattested Norn word, from Old Norse eyrr. Compare Icelandic eyri, Norwegian øyr. See: Old Norse Nouns '
eyrr', Icelandic Nouns '
eyri'.