a. Obs. [perh. a survival of ME. FERE a.2] Comfortable.

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1792.  Burns, Bessy & Spinnin Wheel, 3.

        Frae tap to tae that cleeds me bien,
And haps me fiel and warm at e’en!

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1808.  A. Scott, Poems (ed. 2), 193. Her blankets air’d a’ feil an’ dry.

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