lair

1
A place inhabited by a wild animal, often a cave or a hole in the ground.
O dainty dew, O morning dew / That gleamed in the world's first dawn, did you / And the sweet grass and manful oaks / Give lair and rest / To him who toadwise sits and croaks / His death-behest?
Similar
burrow den holt
2
A shed or shelter for domestic animals.
3
A bog; a mire.
4
A person who dresses in a showy but tasteless manner and behaves in a vulgar and conceited way; a show-off.
5
Obsolete form of layer.
The walls, which are fixed direct into the ground without a plinth, are made of wattle and plastered with a thin lair of mud or cowdung.

1
To rest; to dwell.
The lee-light that December gies Was lairing in the wast, Whan Christy wi' her oa claes, Was boun' to dree the blast.
2
To lay down.
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