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Bare, Bair, n. Also: bar, baare, baire, bayr(e. [Northern ME. bare, bar (ME, bore, bor, Bore n.). OE. bár.] A boar.(a) 1375 Barb. ii. 233.
Barownys that war bauld as bar a1400 Leg. S. xxvii. 863.
He … saw a bare mekill & gret Defoull the corne Ib. xlix. 208.
Barys & lyonnis c1420 Wynt. i. 757.
[It] has a gret tusk as a bare 1456 Hay II. 23/15.
Bere and baare, loup and lyoun c 1489 Liber Aberbr. 263.
Item ij dosane swyne and baris 1496 Treas. Acc. I. 275.
To a man that brocht a bare to the King c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxxii. 58.
Als brim as ony baris woid 1513 Doug. vii. Prol. 82.
Fed tuskyt barys, and fat swyne in sty 1562-3 Winȝet I. 45/11.
The vnclene baris … in thair stinkande styis 1596 Dalr. I. 27/1.
Being sodin, sche is … nocht unlyke to the wylde bare(b) 1498–9 Acta Conc. II. 297.
A blak horse, … ane baire 1506 Treas. Acc. III. 191.
To ane man of the lard of Rossithes brocht ane bair to the King c1500-c1512 Dunb. Tua Mar. W. 95.
As birs of ane brym bair, his berd is als stif 1513 Doug. i. vi. 34.
Followand the chays, eftir the fomy bayr 1535 Stewart 1186.
Bald as ane bair 1542 Reg. Cupar A. II. 191.
With ane feid bair betuixt thame baytht 1560 Rolland Seven S. 64/31.
Ane fair forest … Quhairin thair was rinning ane grit wild bair 1574 Edinb. Test. III. 39.
Four brod swyne and ane bair 1595 Orkney Rentals ii. 5.
Twa fed oxin, twa fed bairis 1600 Misc. Spald. C. IV. 283.
Tua marttis, ane bair 1622-6 Bisset I. 28/33.
The wyld beistis, sik as … beiris, bairis

b. Attrib. with hede, tuthe. 1540 Treas. Acc. VII. 403.
Bair heid, the boar's head crest of the Campbells. To garneis ane bair tuith to my lord prince 1586 Edinb. Test. XVI. 246 b.
Ane quhissill of ane bair tuith garnesit with siluer 1596 Highland P. I. 168.
He foirtauld … that my Lord suld tyne ane feild in the quhilk the nixt best in the bair heid suld fall