英语词汇“lair”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	lair
释义	lair I. \ˈla(a)](ə)r, ˈle], ]ə, Scot ˈlār\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English lair, leir, from Old English leger; akin to Old High German legar bed, act of lying, cohabitation, Old Norse legr grave, cohabitation, Gothic ligrs bed; derivative from the root of English lie (I) 1. Scotland : a burial lot in a graveyard 2. a. dialect Britain : a resting or sleeping place : bed < upon a lair composed of straw with a blanket stretched over it — Sir Walter Scott > b. dialect Britain : a place where pastured livestock lie or rest c. Britain : a pen or shed for cattle on the way to market or kept for slaughtering 3. a. : the bed or living place of a wild animal : den b. : something that resembles the den of an animal: as (1) : a hidden base of operations < the sinking of a boat by the … pirates to cut off approach to their lair — American Guide Series: Louisiana > < believed to be at least one of the chief lairs from which the zeppelins sallied forth to the attack — Times Hist. of the War > (2) : a secret place : hideaway < got up from her lair among the strawberries and wandered across the meadow — John Buchan > < the children followed the grown-ups into the house, and retiring to their lair under the sewing machine studied the new personage from safety — Oliver La Farge > II. intransitive verb (-ed/-ing/-s) : to make or go to a lair : rest < where shall we lair today for from now we follow new trails — Rudyard Kipling > < carnivores of the late Wisconsin period undoubtedly laired … intermittently with human occupation — F.C.Hibben > III. noun (-s) Etymology: Scots, from Middle English (northern dialect) lar learning, from Old English lār lore — more at lore chiefly Scotland : lore; especially : knowledge acquired through instruction IV. noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English, from Old Norse leir loam, clay; akin to Old Norse līm lime — more at lime chiefly Scotland : mire, mud V. verb (-ed/-ing/-s) *transitive verb* chiefly Scotland : to cause to sink in the mire < watery flows in which sheep and cattle sometimes lair themselves — William McIlwraith > *intransitive verb* chiefly Scotland : wallow
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