Definition of "wair" in Anglais

noun

1. (obsolete) A plank six feet long and one foot across.

verb

1. (Scotland, obsolete) To spend.

   • 1841, William Alexander, An Abridgement of the Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland, 1424—1707, page 243, […] Reserving alwayes to the Sheriff or other Magistrates, and taker of the Thief, the expences waired out by them in taking and putting the Thief to execution.

verb

1. Nonstandard form of were.