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Await vs Wair - What's the difference?

await | wair |

As verbs the difference between await and wair

is that await is (formal) to wait for while wair is (scotland|obsolete) to spend or wair can be (were).

As nouns the difference between await and wair

is that await is (label) a waiting for; ambush while wair is a plank 6 feet long and 1 foot across.

await

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (formal) To wait for.
  • * Milton
    • Betwixt these rocky pillars Gabriel sat, / Chief of the angelic guards, awaiting night.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.}}
  • To expect.
  • To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for.
  • * 1900 , , (The House Behind the Cedars) , Chapter I,
    • Standing foursquare in the heart of the town, at the intersection of the two main streets, a "jog" at each street corner left around the market-house a little public square, which at this hour was well occupied by carts and wagons from the country and empty drays awaiting hire.
  • * Milton
    • O Eve, some farther change awaits us nigh.
  • To wait on, serve or attend.
  • To watch, observe.
  • To wait (on or upon).
  • To wait; to stay in waiting.

    • Synonyms

    * (wait for) wait for, anticipate, listen (of a sound)

    Usage notes

    * As await means to wait for'', it is not followed by "for". ''*I am awaiting for your reply is therefore incorrect.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) A waiting for; ambush.
  • (label) Watching, watchfulness, suspicious observation.
  • *, Book VII:
  • *:Also, madame, syte you well that there be many men spekith of oure love in this courte, and have you and me gretely in awayte , as thes Sir Aggravayne and Sir Mordred.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , VI.6:
  • *:For all that night, the whyles the Prince did rest […] He watcht in close awayt with weapons prest […].

    • References

    wair

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A plank 6 feet long and 1 foot across.

    • Etymology 2

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Scotland, obsolete) To spend.
  • * 1826 , Mungo Ponton Brown, Supplement to the Dictionary of the Decisions of the Court of Session , Volume 3, Edinburgh, page 569,
    • .
  • * 1831 [1566], , page 94,
    • We shall maintain them, nourish them, and defend them, the whole congregation of Christ, and every member thereof, at our whole powers and wairing [spending] of our lives, against Satan, and all wicked power that does intend tyranny or trouble against the foresaid congregation.
  • * 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.

    Etymology 3

    Verb

    (head)
  • (were)
  • * 1897 , , 2007, page 18,
    • We didn't al'ays stay here, but wair' on the wing here and thar where game was most plentiful, and often in company with the Mingoes, who ' wair our sworn fri'nds an' allies.

    References

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