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LAIR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The habitation of wild animals
Synonyms:
den; lair
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("lair" is a kind of...):
habitation (the native habitat or home of an animal or plant)
Context examples:
High and bluff the English cog; long, black and swift the pirate galleys, like two fierce lean wolves which have seen a lordly and unsuspecting stag walk past their forest lair.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It is true that these monstrous creatures which we had seen were lumbering, inoffensive brutes which were unlikely to hurt anyone, but in this world of wonders what other survivals might there not be—what fierce, active horrors ready to pounce upon us from their lair among the rocks or brushwood?
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Nay, more, in all probability, he does not know that such a power exists to us as can sterilise his lairs, so that he cannot use them as of old.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Not for nothing had he first seen the light of day in a lonely lair and fought his first fights with the ptarmigan, the weasel, and the lynx.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
It was finally agreed that before starting for Piccadilly we should destroy the Count's lair close at hand.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Before she went away, the she-wolf had found this lair, but the signs told her that the lynx was inside, and she had not dared to venture in.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
And so we have this day to hunt out all his lairs and sterilise them.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
At the forks he took the turning to the left, where he found the lair of the lynx with whom his mother and he had fought long before.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
As to the disposal of forces, it was suggested by the Professor that, after our visit to Carfax, we should all enter the house in Piccadilly; that the two doctors and I should remain there, whilst Lord Godalming and Quincey found the lairs at Walworth and Mile End and destroyed them.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Five or six miles from the lair, the stream divided, its forks going off among the mountains at a right angle.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
