Airing
['eərɪŋ] or ['ɛrɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) a short excursion (a walk or ride) in the open air; 'he took the dogs for an airing'.
Typist: Melville--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Air
(n.) A walk or a ride in the open air; a short excursion for health's sake.
(n.) An exposure to air, or to a fire, for warming, drying, etc.; as, the airing of linen, or of a room.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Ride, drive, walk, promenade, stroll, excursion.[2]. Exposure to air, admission of air.
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Examples
- The unsuspecting Sloppy was at that moment airing his many buttons within view of the window. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The odor is not unpleasant, and is quickly removed by airing the room. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- One afternoon the Sympson family were gone out to take a carriage airing. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Introduced same, cautiously, in course of airing. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- An airing would do me a great deal of good, I am sure. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- In the course of twenty minutes she appeared from round the corner, and advanced as if merely taking an airing. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- We see little girls and boys go out in gondolas with their nurses, for an airing. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Miss Amy is gone for an airing. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- All the ladies concurred in this opinion; so Mr. Raddle was pushed out of the room, and requested to give himself an airing in the back yard. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Airing yourself, as I am doing, before you go to bed? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- An airing in the Hartfield carriage would have been the rack, and arrowroot from the Hartfield storeroom must have been poison. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Expecting Herbert all the time, I dared not go out, except when I took Provis for an airing after dark. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- They said of old the Soul had human shape, But smaller, subtler than the fleshly self, So wandered forth for airing when it pleased. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Mr. George then descries, in the procession, the venerable Mr. Smallweed out for an airing, attended by his granddaughter Judy as body-guard. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Rachel was a girl about thirteen, who carried the baby out for airings; and she came upstairs at the call. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
Typist: Susan