Definition of "eyr" [eyr]

• Obsolete form of air. (noun)

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• "And there ben also in that contree manye camles, that is a lytille best as a goot, that is wylde and he lyvethe be the eyr, and etethe nought ne drynkethe nought at no tyme."
• "And therfore it semethe wel, that theise hilles passen the clowdes and joynen to the pure eyr."
• "And witethe wel, that in that contree and in othere yles there abouten, the see is to highe, that it semethe as though it henge at the clowdes, and that it wolde covere alle the world: and that is gret mervaylle, that it myghte be so, saf only the wille of God, that the eyr susteynethe it."