ayrie

But this of ours cannot be sent away any whit so farre off without losse and decay of his efficacy, and vertue; so ayrie, subtill, and piercing are its spirits, and minerall exhalations, that they soone passe, vanish, and flye away.

Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain Edmund Deane

It is strange to see with what greedinesse this ayrie Chameleon, being all lungs and winde, will swallow a receite of newes, as if it were physicall: yea, with what frontlesse insinuation he will scrue himselfe into the acquaintance of some knowing _Intelligencers_, who, trying the cask by his hollow sound, do familiarly gull him.

Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle

Fidelium_ or Essays, wherein grow trees of more than two foote diameter, besides cypresse, myrtils, lentiscs, and other rare shrubs, which serve to nestle and pearch all sorts of birds, who have an ayre and place enough under their ayrie canopy, supported with huge iron worke stupendious for its fabrick and the charge.

Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922

A herons neast, or ayrie; a _herne_-shaw or shaw of wood, wherein herons breed.

Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

Sooner they boarded not the crazed Barke, But they beheld where speechlesse _Grinuile_ lay, All smeard in blood, and clouded in the darke, Contagious curtaine of Deaths tragick day; They wept for pittie, and yet silent marke Whether his lungs sent liuing breath away, Which when they sawe in ayrie blasts to flie, They striu’d who first should stanch his misery.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

813: Would through the ayrie Region streame so bright,

Romeo and Juliet (1623 First Folio Edition) 1623