Lair

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A place inhabited by a wild animal, often a cave or a hole in the ground.

   “O dainty dew, O morning dew / That gleamed in the world's first dawn, did you / And the sweet grass and manful oaks / Give lair and rest / To him who toadwise sits and croaks / His death-behest?”

2. isim A shed or shelter for domestic animals.
3. isim A place inhabited by a criminal or criminals, a superhero or a supervillain; a refuge, retreat, haven or hideaway.

   “...Van Helsing stood up and said, "Now, my dear friends, we go forth to our terrible enterprise. Are we all armed, as we were on that night when first we visited our enemy's lair. Armed against ghostly as well as carnal attack?"”

4. isim A bed or resting place.

   “Then would I in Plenty's lap, For the first time take a nap; Falling back in easy lair, Sweetly slumb'ring in my chair;”

5. isim A grave; a cemetery plot.

   “[…] but few knew the reason, and some thought it was because the deceased were strangers, and had no regular lair. I dressed the two bonny orphans in the best mourning at my own cost […]”

6. isim A group where pickup artists meet to discuss and practise seduction techniques.
7. fiil To rest; to dwell.

   “The lee-light that December gies Was lairing in the wast, Whan Christy wi' her oa claes, Was boun' to dree the blast.”

8. fiil To lay down.
9. fiil To bury.
10. isim A bog; a mire.
11. fiil To mire.
12. fiil To become mired.
13. isim A person who dresses in a showy but tasteless manner and behaves in a vulgar and conceited way; a show-off.
14. isim Obsolete form of layer.

    “The walls, which are fixed direct into the ground without a plinth, are made of wattle and plastered with a thin lair of mud or cowdung.”

15. özel isim A surname.