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Quotation dates: 1805
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†AIR, n.5 St.Eng. eyre. Properly a circuit (of a judge), in Sc. usually the circuit court held by itinerant judges. Obs. exc. hist.Sc. 1805 Scott Last Minstrel iv. xxxv.:
How Ousenam's maidens tore their hair . . . And wrung their hands for love of him, Who died at Jedwood Air.
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