An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

Isl. and-a, Su. G. and-as, respirare.

AYNDING, s. The act of breathing.
Douglas.

AYNDING-STEDE, s. A breathing-place.
Douglas.

AYNDLESSE, adj. Breathless, out of breath.
Barbour.

AINS, adv. Once.
V. [Anis].

AIR, AYR, AR, ARE, adv.
1. Before, formerly.
Wallace.
2. Early.
Fell air, very early in the morning.
Airer, compar.; airest, superl.
Wyntown.
Are morrow, early in the morning.
Douglas.

Moes. G. air, A. S. aer, Alem. er, Belg. eer, ante, prius; also tempus matutinum.

AIR, adj. Early, S.
Journ. Lond.

AIR, s. Expl. "hair, used for a thing of no value."
Bannatyne Poems.

Isl. aur, the smallest thing imaginable.