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ure

noun

Etymology

From Middle English Yore, Jor, from Old English Earp, corrupted from *Ear + ƿ (abbreviation for ƿæter (“water”)); first element from Brythonic *Isurā with loss of intervocalic s, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *isərós (“vigorous, quick”), from *eis(ə, related to Sanskrit इषिरम् (iṣiram, “fast, quick”). Compare the Gaulish river Isara.

  1. derived from opera
  2. derived from uevre
  3. derived from *ure✻
  4. inherited from ure

Definitions

  1. Use, practise, exercise.

    • I cannot vtter any more, for words waxe out of vre
    • But come, let vs be sure of this, to put the best in vre That lies in vs;
    • ...it maketh him practise simulation in other things, lest his hand should be out of ure

  2. To use

    To use; to exercise; to inure; to accustom by practice.

    • 1551, Ralph Robinson (translator), Utopia (1516) by Thomas More, edited by William Dallam Armes, New York: Macmillan, 1912, Book 1, p. 37, […] the French soldiers […] from their youth have been practised and ured in feats of arms […]

  3. Synonym of aurochs.

    • The Vre therefoꝛe ryſeth in the fardeſt partes of all Richmondeſhyꝛe, among the Coterine hilles, in a moſſe, towarde the weſt fourtéene myles beyonde Mydleham.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. Abbreviation of you're (you are).

    2. A river in North Yorkshire, England, which flows through Wensleydale

    3. A surname.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA