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  1. An old form of aery.
  2. In Irish antiq., a freeman; a gentleman; one of the privileged classes. Aires were of two classes: the flaths, or those who possessed property in land; and the bo-aires, who possessed cows and other chattels. The king was elected by these two classes. Clansmen who possessed twenty-one cows and upwards were airig (sing. aire), or, as we should say, had the franchise, and might fulfil the functions of bail, witness, etc. Encyc. Brit., XIII. 257. The upper classes were all aires. To be eligible to the aire grade, the freeman should possess, besides a certain amount of wealth in cattle, a prescribed assortment of agricultural implements and household goods. Encyc. Brit., IV. 252.

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  1. Irish, plural airig; cf. aireach, a noble, a privileged person.
 

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