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  • adjective Having a lair.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of lair.; mired.

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Examples

  • The jaguar is not far distant, "laired" in the secret depths of the impenetrable jungle.

    The Rifle Rangers Mayne Reid 1850

  • About the feet of the colossi I could make out the creeping forms of beasts that laired in the once proud works of men.

    Chapter 12 2010

  • But they were artists, with eyes therefore unlike the next batteries of human eyes Ida Barton was compelled to run, and that laired on the Outrigger lanais

    THE KANAKA SURF 2010

  • He put his nose into the opening where the wild-dog laired, and sniffed.

    CHAPTER VI 2010

  • For two days he had laired and rested, sleeping much, in the wildest and most inaccessible precincts of the Kennan Ranch.

    CHAPTER XXXVI 2010

  • Where, now, are the crumbling rock - cliffs of old Egypt where once I laired me like a wild beast while I dreamed of the City of God?

    Chapter 12 2010

  • Nob Hill arose, like any medieval castle, from the mess and ruck of common life that denned and laired at its base.

    CHAPTER IV 2010

  • When it's discovered that these raiders are in fact laired on the moon, by order of his king our princeling protagonist joins forces with a wizard to lead an enchanted hot air balloon expedition to the moon to strike back at these raiders.

    Realms of Fantasy: December 2006 (Issue 74) douglascohen 2010

  • When it's discovered that these raiders are in fact laired on the moon, by order of his king our princeling protagonist joins forces with a wizard to lead an enchanted hot air balloon expedition to the moon to strike back at these raiders.

    February 15th, 2010 douglascohen 2010

  • And there had even been an earlier sign, at Falconsbane's battle and subsequent escape from the ruins where the gryphons laired.

    Widows and Orphans R. Daniel Lester 2010

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