Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Fair \Fair\, n.
   1. Fairness, beauty. [Obs.] --Shak.

   2. A fair woman; a sweetheart.

            I have found out a gift for my fair.  --Shenstone.

   3. Good fortune; good luck.

            Now fair befall thee !                --Shak.

   {The fair}, anything beautiful; women, collectively. ``For
      slander's mark was ever yet the fair.'' --Shak.