noun
- a den or resting place of a wild animal: The cougar retired to its lair.
- a secluded or hidden place, especially a secret retreat or base of operations; a hideout or hideaway: a pirate’s lair.
- British. a place in which to lie or rest; a bed.
verb (used with object)
- to place in a lair.
- to serve as a lair for.
verb (used without object)
- to go to, lie in, or have a lair.
noun
- British Dialect. mud; mire.
verb (used without object)
- Scot. to sink or stick in mud or mire.
noun Chiefly Scot.
- lore; learning.
noun Australian Informal.
- a man who dresses garishly and is crude or vulgar; showoff.
noun
- the resting place of a wild animal
- informal a place of seclusion or hiding
- an enclosure or shed for farm animals
- Scot the ground for a grave in a cemetery
verb
- (intr) (esp of a wild animal) to retreat to or rest in a lair
- (tr) to drive or place (an animal) in a lair
noun, verb
- a Scot word for mire
noun
- a flashy man who shows off
verb
- (intr; foll by up or around) to behave or dress like a lair
n.Old English leger “bed, couch, grave; act or place of lying down,” from Proto-Germanic *legraz (cf. Old Norse legr “grave,” also “nuptials” (“a lying down”); Old Frisian leger “situation,” Old Saxon legar “bed,” Middle Dutch legher “act or place of lying down,” Dutch leger “bed, camp,” Old High German legar “bed, a lying down,” German Lager “bed, lair, camp, storehouse,” Gothic ligrs “place of lying”), from PIE *legh- “to lie, lay” (see lie (v.2)). Meaning “animal’s den” is from early 15c.