Unaired

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8.]

  † 1.  Untraveled. Obs.^–1 (Cf. AIRED ppl. a. 2.)

a. 1616[?].  Beaum. & Fl., Q. Corinth, II. iv. Be not so improvident To forget your travelling pace, ’tis a main posture, And to all unayr’d Gentlemen will betray you.

  2.  Not exposed to the air or to heat so as to remove stagnant air or damp. (Cf. AIR v. 1, 2.)

1682.  Otway, Venice Preserved, III. ii. What feminine Tale hast thou been listening to, or unayr’d shirts; Catharrs and Tooth Ach got By thin-sol’d shoos.

1740.  Mrs. Delany, in Life & Corr. (1861), II. 122. We are, I think, too much invalids to go into an unaired house.

1763.  Brit. Mag., IV. 405. The ladies were under terrible apprehensions about damp sheets and unaired beds.

1826.  Scott, Woodst., iii. The state-rooms are unaired, and in indifferent order.

1865.  Trollope, Belton Est., ix. 95. She had been wrong to go into such a place as the cold, unaired Court House.