Obs. Sc. Also 4–6 fere, 5, 7 feare, 6 fler. [aphet. f. EFFEIR.] Appearance, demeanour, look, show; = affere (AFFAIR 6), EFFEIR sb. 2.
c. 1440. Gaw. & Gol., xiii. He wes ladlike of lait, and light of his fere.
c. 1470. Henry the Minstrel, Wallace, IX. 101. Tell me his feyr, and how I sall him knaw.
c. 1500. Felon Sowe Rokeby, in Whitaker, Hist. Craven (1805), 418. Scho rase up with a felon fere.
1528. Lyndesay, Dream, 447.
| Quha wald behauld his countynance and feir, | |
| Mycht call hym, weill, the god of men of weir. |
b. In feir of war: in martial array.
1449. Sc. Acts Jas. II. (1597), § 25. Gif onie man, as God forbid, committe or do treason against the Kingis person, or his Majestie, or risis in feire of weir against him.
1550. Lyndesay, Sqr. Meldrum, 1230.
| With thrie scoir in his company, | |
| Accowterit weill in feir of weir. |
c. 1565. Lindsay of Pitscottie, Chron. Scot. (1728), 215. The Queen made Proclamation through the North Country, that all Men should be at her in Fier of War.
c. pl. Gestures, ways, ‘points’ of a person’s exterior.
c. 1375. Barbour, Troy-bk., II. 2501. He kend him be his feris. Ibid., II. 3003. With brokine speche and with waik feris.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, III. ix. 14. Bot he was Greik be all his vthir feris.
a. 1548. Thrie Priests of Peblis, in Pinkerton, Scot. Poems (1792), I. 19.
| With club, and bel, and partie cote with eiris, | |
| He feinyeit him ane fule, fond in his feris. |
