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Leyar, Lear, Liear, n. Also: leyer, leier; leare, leir; liar, -er, ly(e)ar(e, (-art), -er. [ME. lyer(e, liar(e, -er, lygher, leier (Cursor M.), etc., OE. léoᵹere, léᵹere.] A liar.(a) a1400 Leg. S. i. 422.
Sa thu ma wit quhedir he A lele man or a lear be Ib. xi. 184.
Learis 1405 Slater Early Sc. Texts No. 59.
Learys suld be lytille alowit wyth ony sic worschipfull kyng as ȝhe ar 1456 Hay I. 150/30.
Sum is … a grete leare 1490 Irland Mir. fol. 127.
God is na leare na desauare of the pepil 1562-3 Winȝet II. 12/13.
That worthy punisment war tane of schameles oppin learis and treuth brekaris 1570 Sat. P. xii. 127.
Haue lyounis lukis and than mak me ane lear 1633 Lithgow Poet. Rem. 107.
Diuell take the lears(b) 1529 Barry Orkney (1808) 449.
Wais, Pomonienses vocant incolas (the lyars of Wais) 1535 Stewart 57214.
As hapnis oft ane vanter to be liear 15.. Wyf Awcht. .
Quod he, Feind fall the lyaris face a1568 Jok & Jynny 15.
I schro thé, lyar 1560 Rolland Seven S. 8190.
Ane lier gif scho be, Than let the law correct hir for hir lie 1563-1570 Buch. Wr. 57.
Your Inglesmen ar fund liars in thair cronicles 1571 Sempill Sat. P. xxviii. 220.
And gif I lie, God nor the liers be hangit a1578 Pitsc. II. 211/2.
I desyre … [you] to … mak the speikeris thairof liaris 1584–5 Inverness Rec. I. 297.
[He] callit me commoun theiff and lyeart a1598 Ferg. Prov. (1641) 2.
A lyer should have a good memorie 1615 Crim. Trials III. 356.
Nocht as rasche & rekles liearis … but as witnessis deliberately fals 1652 Inverness Presb. 236.
Being cited for calling his minister kneve and a lyare(c) 1558-66 Knox I. 47.
Hie still replyed that thei ware leyaris 1584 Gray Lett. & P. 41.
That he nou accountis them leiers 1591 St. A. Kirk S. 714.
Thai vareis in thair depositionis and makis utheris leyaris 1597–8 Crim. Trials II. 30.
Ane number of the saidis seditious leyaris, authouris of the reportis 1615 Highland P. III. 236.
The Secret [Council] rejectit him opinlie and callit him ane leud leier 1627 Glasgow Weavers 69.
The divill rug out the leyeris saull(d) a1585 Polwart Flyt. 821 (T).
Loud leir