† laury Obs.
Also 4 lorrei, lorry, 5 lorey, 6 loury, lowrie, laurye, ? laurew, 7 lary, -ie, 8 lowry.
[? f. L. laurea, fem. of laureus adj., but used as n. for the tree itself.]
= laurel n.1
| a 1400 Med. MS. in Archæol. XXX. 368 Whanne yis erbe is gaderid yus, In lewys of lorry it must be wounnde. 14.. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 577/26 Dampnis, a loreytre. Ibid. 592/4 Laurus, a loreytre. 1422 tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. 245 Al the grene is fadid, outake the Pynes, lorreis, olyues, and few othyr tren. 1508 Dunbar Ballad Ld. B. Stewart 67 Thi cristall helme with lawry suld be crownyt. 1533 Bellenden Livy ii. (1822) 181 He wald not ressave the crown of laurew [v.r. laurer], to have the samin deformit with the public doloure. 1548 Turner Names of Herbes 34 (E.D.S.) Daphnoides called of the commune sort Laureola, in englishe Lauriel, Lorel, or Loury. 1549 Compl. Scot. vi. 60 The laurye tree. 1598 Florio, Laureola, the herbe perwinkle. Also the shrub lowrie or lawrell. 1681 S. Colvil Whigs Supplic. (1751) 106 Turpentine and larie berries. Ibid. 121 Trembling he stood, in a quandary, And purg'd, as he had eaten lary. 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Lowry or Lowaray, a Shrub, otherwise call'd Spurge-Laurel. |