mair

[ mair ]

/ mɛər /

adjective, noun, adverb Scot. and North England.

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Words nearby mair

maintopsail, mainz, mainz psalter, maiolica, maiquetía, mair, maira, maire, mairehau, maisie, maison de molière, la

Example sentences from the Web for mair

It has slashed the heads off mair Whigamores than you have toes upon your feet.
Kidnapped|Robert Louis Stevenson
It is needless for me to say mair; but ye hae my full and free consent to marry when ye like.'
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 18|Alexander Leighton
He didn't expect to give up his right to it, and let the mair canter off free at a stated time.
Sweet Cicely|Josiah Allen's Wife: Marietta Holley
I wish I had never been born, an' I hope I'll no' live lang, that's mair.'
The Guinea Stamp|Annie S. Swan

And that's what vexes me mair than a' the rest, when I think how I am to fend for ye now in thae brickle times.
Old Mortality, Complete, Illustrated|Sir Walter Scott