"faird" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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        }
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          "ref": "[a. 1522, Virgil, chapter XI, in Gawin Douglas [i.e., Gavin Douglas], transl., edited by [George Dundas], The Æneid of Virgil: Translated into Scottish Verse (Bannatyne Club, Publications; 64, no. 1), volume I, Edinburgh: T. Constable, printer, published 1839, →OCLC, page 355, lines 14–17",
          "text": "And ſone as he perſavys quhar that went / Forganyſt him, cumand throu greſy ſward, / Hys derreſt ſon Ene with hasty fard, / Baith his handys joyfull furthſtracht he than;[…]]",
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          "ref": "1609, Archbishop of St. Andrews [George Gledstanes], “CXXVIII. The Archbishop of St Andrews to King James”, in Original Letters Relating to the Ecclesiastical Affairs of Scotland, Chiefly Written by, or Addressed to, His Majesty King James the Sixth after His Accession to the English Throne (Bannatyne Club, Publications; 92, no. 1), volumes I (M.DC.III.–M.DC.XIV.), Edinburgh: Printed by John Hughes, […], published 1851, →OCLC, page 216",
          "text": "Sire, I remember it is recordit, that in the Pharſalick conflict Cæſar obſerued that Pompeye, be his wntymeous reſtraint of his ſouldiers in the chock of the battel, in ſtaying them of thair force and faird, ſo abbaited their courage, that they wer aine eaſie praye to the Cæſarians, fewar in number, and of leſſe valour; […]",
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          "ref": "1714, Allan Ramsay, “Elegy on John Cowper, Kirk-treasurer’s Man, anno 1714”, in Poems by Allan Ramsay. In Two Volumes, volume I, London: Printed for A[ndrew] Millar, […]; and W. Johnston, […], published 1751, →OCLC, page 16, lines 43–46",
          "text": "But ne'er a ane of them he ſpar'd, / E'en tho' there was a drunken laird / To draw his ſword, and make a faird / In their defence, […] [Footnote: Make a faird.) A buſtle like a bully.]",
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        "Alternative form of ferd (“effort”)"
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        {
          "word": "fard"
        },
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          "word": "farde (15th c.)"
        },
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          "word": "ferde (16th c.)"
        }
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  "word": "faird"
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          "ref": "[a. 1522, Virgil, chapter XI, in Gawin Douglas [i.e., Gavin Douglas], transl., edited by [George Dundas], The Æneid of Virgil: Translated into Scottish Verse (Bannatyne Club, Publications; 64, no. 1), volume I, Edinburgh: T. Constable, printer, published 1839, →OCLC, page 355, lines 14–17",
          "text": "And ſone as he perſavys quhar that went / Forganyſt him, cumand throu greſy ſward, / Hys derreſt ſon Ene with hasty fard, / Baith his handys joyfull furthſtracht he than;[…]]",
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          "ref": "1609, Archbishop of St. Andrews [George Gledstanes], “CXXVIII. The Archbishop of St Andrews to King James”, in Original Letters Relating to the Ecclesiastical Affairs of Scotland, Chiefly Written by, or Addressed to, His Majesty King James the Sixth after His Accession to the English Throne (Bannatyne Club, Publications; 92, no. 1), volumes I (M.DC.III.–M.DC.XIV.), Edinburgh: Printed by John Hughes, […], published 1851, →OCLC, page 216",
          "text": "Sire, I remember it is recordit, that in the Pharſalick conflict Cæſar obſerued that Pompeye, be his wntymeous reſtraint of his ſouldiers in the chock of the battel, in ſtaying them of thair force and faird, ſo abbaited their courage, that they wer aine eaſie praye to the Cæſarians, fewar in number, and of leſſe valour; […]",
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          "ref": "1714, Allan Ramsay, “Elegy on John Cowper, Kirk-treasurer’s Man, anno 1714”, in Poems by Allan Ramsay. In Two Volumes, volume I, London: Printed for A[ndrew] Millar, […]; and W. Johnston, […], published 1751, →OCLC, page 16, lines 43–46",
          "text": "But ne'er a ane of them he ſpar'd, / E'en tho' there was a drunken laird / To draw his ſword, and make a faird / In their defence, […] [Footnote: Make a faird.) A buſtle like a bully.]",
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        "Alternative form of ferd (“effort”)"
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      "word": "fard"
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      "word": "farde (15th c.)"
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      "word": "ferde (16th c.)"
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