Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Ure"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Ur \Ur\, Ure \Ure\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
The urus.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Ure \Ure\, n. [OE. ure, OF. oevre, ovre, ouvre, work, F.
[oe]uvre, L. opera. See {Opera}, {Operate}, and cf. {Inure},
{Manure}.]
Use; practice; exercise. [Obs.] --Fuller.
Let us be sure of this, to put the best in ure That
lies in us. --Chapman.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Ure \Ure\, v. t.
To use; to exercise; to inure; to accustom by practice.
[Obs.]
The French soldiers . . . from their youth have been
practiced and ured in feats of arms. --Sir T. More.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Urus \U"rus\, n. [L.; of Teutonic origin. See {Aurochs}.]
(Zo["o]l.)
A very large, powerful, and savage extinct bovine animal
({Bos urus or primigenius}) anciently abundant in Europe. It
appears to have still existed in the time of Julius C[ae]sar.
It had very large horns, and was hardly capable of
domestication. Called also, {ur}, {ure}, and {tur}.
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