a. Obs. [f. AIR sb. + -ISH. Cf. Spanish.]
1. Of or belonging to the air; aerial, aereous.
c. 1384. Chaucer, H. Fame, 964. And behelde the ayerissh bestes [v.r. ayryssh, ayrisshe, eyrysshe].
1551. Turner, Herbal, II. 165. Viscum is made of an aerishe, waterishe hote nature.
2. Cool, fresh.
1641. Best, Farming (1856), 18. Betwixt 8 and 9 of the clocke; and not afore, because the morninges are airish.
