n f. (variant form of esair?) a litter, bed (of rushes, etc.): ro ort Blathnat . . . orgain ossar cēt [i] nglind, ZCP ix 199 ( LL 169b56 = osar , BB 378a40 ), i.e. a [death-]bed for a hundred, see p. 336 ; in Metr. Dinds. iii 254 Gwynn reads: ós Airget-Glind. a raithnech . . . ní hosair fir fuagarta `no bed for an outlaw', BS 80.23 . ? fig. cuairt ngaisi, gnuisi escai, osair airechta (of a judge), ZCP xii 364.26 .

Compds. osairchosair cethora ṅdrong ndeichenbair a litter- couch for forty, TBC-LL¹ 2339 , cf. certchossair cethri ndrong ndechenbair, BDD 87. ¤lár: ro leacc é for osarlar an átha, TBC-LL¹ 3903 St. a n-osarlar an atha, ZCP x 293.27 . Cf. Eng. `bed of a river'. ¤lepa a litter-couch : feis ar osarleaba urluachra, ZCP x 280.13 (= osarleabaidh, viii 550.22 ). sciath . . . ara thoilledh osa airdleabaidh [leg. osairleaba] teora ṅdrong ndeiceanmhoir, 279.20 , cf. TBC-LL¹ 2339. ¤lind: go ttarla C.C. fo osairlindtibh an atha, ZCP x 295 z .

n a burden ? osar eire bhios ar neach, Metr. Gl. Ff. 60 (osair, osaire v.l.). ossar .i. eire bhios ar dhuine, O'Cl. ? osar .i. ar slaughter(?), Lec. Gl. 241 M ; perhaps due to misunderstanding of osair in such passages as LL 169b56 or in compds.

n o, m. (< óa compar. of oac, óc; for ending cf. sinser) also uaser, Hy. i 9. One who is younger, a junior : ossar .i. fer iss oo, Corm. Y 1032. osar .i. an tí as óige, O'Cl. aracae osar sinnser, O'Dav. 122 , cf. Laws iv 372.4 (osor). ni tí sinn- sear ria n-osar , 376.24 .

Gen. in sense of superl., the youngest : athair tri cethrur ocus Ioseph a n-úaser the father of twelve, Joseph being the youngest, Hy. i 9 (a n-uas-, a n-óser MSS.). ossar na nduli (of Adam), SR 1142. cet[h]ri meic Iesé .i. Dauid a n-ósar , LB 130a5 . facbaid bar n-osar ocum-sa the youngest among you, 116b31 . tan bim eter in n-aes mer | dommuinet is mé a n-oisser they think I am the youngest among them, Fél. 150.36 (a soiser v.l.). do láim Troil ósair chlainne Príaim, TTr. 1375.

Compd. far n-ósarbráthair your youngest brother, SR 3587.