▪ I. † ore1 Obs.
Forms: α. 1–4 ár, 1–5 áre, (3 ære, aore). β. 2–5 ore, 3–5 hore, 5 ȝore.
[OE. ár str. fem. = OFris. êre, OS. êra (MDu. êre, Du. eer), OHG. êra (MHG. êre, Ger. ehre), ON. eir clemency (Icel. æra, Sw. ära, Da. áre, are from Ger.):—OTeut. *aizā (wanting in Gothic, which has the related vb. ais-t-an to regard, respect, with which cf. L. æs-tum-āre to esteem, value). The primary sense seems to have been ‘esteem, regard, respect’, whence the senses of ‘honour (glory, dignity), reverence, respect, favour, sparing, mercy, help’, etc., found in the various languages. The derived vb. OE. árian to regard, reverence, honour, = ON. eira to spare, OHG. êren, Ger. ehren to honour, is found in Early ME. as are v.1]
1. Respect, reverence; honour, glory.
| α c 900 tr. Bæda's Hist. ii. xvi. [xx.] (1890) 148 Ond þeah þe he Cristen beon sceolde, ne wolde he æniᵹe aare weotan on þære Cristnan æfestnisse. a 1000 Cædmon's Gen. 1580 Cam..on his aᵹenum fæder are ne wolde ᵹesceawian. a 1000 Phœnix 663 Ar and onwald in þam up-lican Rodera rice. a 1225 St. Marher. 5 For he ne alið neauer, ah liueð a in are. a 1300 Cursor M. 4245 (Cott.) Putifer..held ioseph in mensk and are. Ibid. 8770 (Cott.) Þat men it suld sua hald in ar [Gött. are]. c 1320 Sir Tristr. 1816 Ysoude he loued in are. c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints xxx. (Theodera) 134 Þu..has rentis fare & til haf mare has perans of are. |
2. Grace, favour, mercy, pity, clemency.
Of common use in
ME. in appeals to the Deity, entreaties for a hearing, help, etc.,
esp. in the parenthetic
thine ore = of thy grace, F.
de grâce, which tended to become a mere precatory phrase.
| α Beowulf (Z.) 2607 He..ᵹemunde ða ða are þe he him ær forᵹeaf, wicstede weliᵹne. a 1000 Andreas 1131 (Gr.) Ne mihte earmsceapen are findan. a 1200 Moral Ode 53 (Lamb. MS.) For habben godes are. a 1240 Ureisun in Cott. Hom. 187 A ihesu, þin aore! hwet deþ þanne þi blod isched on þe rode? a 1300 Cursor M. 2749 (Cott.) Lauerd, said abraham, þi nare [so Fairf.; Gött. & Trin. þin are] Sal þou þine auin sua-gat for-fare? a 1400–50 Alexander 5361 Candace..pleynes ‘Lord Alexander, þine are, quare is þi wittis?’ a 1500 Kyng & Hermit 180 in Hazl. E.P.P. I. 20 The kyng seyd: Be Gods are, And I sych an hermyte were. |
| β a 1200 Moral Ode 298 (Lamb. MS.) Nis noþer inne helle, ore ne forȝiuenesse. a 1225 Ancr. R. 26 Swete Iesu þin ore! a 1300 Floriz & Bl. 173 ‘Sire’, he sede, ‘bi godes ore, So god in nauede ihc wel ȝore’. c 1386 Chaucer Miller's T. 540 Lemman, thy grace, and sweete bryd, thyn ore. 1412–20 Lydg. Chron. Troy (MS. Helmingham) lf. 64 a, Ay, Sir, she said, for Goddes ore What ye ar tel me more. c 1420 Chron. Vilod. st. 1236 He sayde, Blessude Virgyn! y crie ȝow mercy and hore. c 1450 Erle Tolous 226 Yschall be trewe, be goddys ore. |
3. The condition of being spared; security from danger, peace.
| c 1205 Lay. 26266 And lete we þat folc wræcche, wunien an ære. 1297 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 9771 Alle þe avowes of þis churche, in was ore ich am ido. c 1320 Sir Tristr. 276 Now haþ rohand in ore Tristrem and is ful bliþe. |
Hence
† ˈoreful,
ˈareful a. [
OE. árful], honourable, venerable; merciful, compassionate;
† ˈoreless,
ˈareless a. [
OE. árléas], void of reverence, mercy, or pity; merciless, cruel.
| 743–5 in Thorpe Dipl. Angl. (1865) 28 Ic æðelbald..wæs beden from þæm *arfullan bisceope Milrede. c 1000 Ags. Ps. (Spelm.) cii. 3 Se ðe arfull biþ eallum unrihtwisum ðinum. c 1200 Ormin 1460 Ȝiff þin herrte iss arefull, & milde, & soffte, & nesshe. |
| c 900 tr. Bæda's Hist. iv. xix. [xvii.] (1890) 312, & eahtatyne wið þæm *arleasum Arreum eretici & his lare. a 1000 Juliana 4 Maximianes se ᵹeond middan-ᵹeard arleas cyning, eahtnysse ahof. a 1200 Moral Ode 216 (Lamb. MS.) Ac helle king is are-les [Trin. MS. ore-leas, Egert.1 oreles, Jesus ore-les] with þa þe he mei binden. c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 123 Þat orelese mennisse, þe ne haueð ore of him seluen. c 1200 Ormin 9881 Arelæs, & grimme, & grill. |
▪ II. ore2 (
ɔə(r))
Forms: α. 1
óra, 4
ore, 5–7
oore, 5–6
oure, 6 (
ower,
owre),
ur, 6–7
ure; β. (1
ár), 3
or, 4
oor, 5–
ore, (6
wore, 6–8
oare, 7–8
oar.)
[Two types of this word are found from 14th to 17th c.: viz. (1) oor(e, oure, owre, ur(e, of which (as shown by spelling and by rimes) the regular mod. repr. would be oor (ʊə(r)), and which corresponds to
OE. óra wk. masc. ‘unwrought metal’, ‘ore’,
corresp. to
Du. oer,
LG. (E.
Fris.)
ûr, of uncertain origin; (2)
ME. ôr, in 17–18th c.
oar,
mod. ore, which answers phonetically to
OE. ár (also
ǽr) ‘brass’
= OS. êr (in
êrin ‘brazen’),
MDu. eer,
OHG.,
MHG. êr,
ON. eir,
Goth. aiz str. neut. ‘brass’
= L.
æs,
ær- ‘brass’,
Skr. ayas ‘metal’. It would appear that, about the 12th c.,
OE. ár began to be identified in sense with
OE. óra, and that forms descended from both continued side by side until the 17th c., when the forms from
óra became
obs., or were levelled under those from
ár. Thus the
mod.Eng. word appears to derive its sense from
OE. óra, but its form from
OE. ár ‘brass’, which may have been extended to the sense ‘metal’, and thus to ‘ore’. It is possible that, in very modern
Eng., the form
oor might itself have passed into (
ɔə(r)), as in the spoken forms of
door,
floor, and southern
pronunc. of
moor,
poor; but this would not explain the double forms from 13th to 17th c., nor the 16th c.
oar.]
1. a. A native mineral containing a precious or useful metal in such quantity and in such chemical combination as to make its extraction profitable. Also applied to minerals mined for their content of non-metals.
Sometimes,
esp. formerly, applied also to a mixture of a native metal with a rock or vein-stone, or to metal in an unreduced or unworked state.
| [Cf. a 1000 L. & Ags. Glosses in Wr.-Wülcker 237/20 Ferri fodina, in quo loco ferrum foditur, isern ore.] |
| α a 1000 Ags. Ps. (Th.) xi. 7 Swa þæt seolfor,..syþþan se ora adolfen byð. c 1000 ælfric Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 142/34 Metallum, ælces kynnes wecg, uel ora oþðe clyna. c 1386 Chaucer Wife's T. 208 For al the metal ne for oore [v. rr. ore, oure, oer; rime poore, pore, poure, pouer]. 1436 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 186 Of sylvere and golde there is the oore Amonge the wylde Yrishe, though they be pore. c 1505 Mem. Ripon (Surtees) III. 197, iiijor foder de vr non ignit. 1513 Douglas æneis x. iii. 52 Quhar the goldin riveir Pactolus warpys on grund the gold vre cleir. 1552 Edw. VI Jrnl. in Lit. Rem. (Roxb.) 416 The oure that the Almaines had diged in a mine of silver. 1552 Huloet, Oore of golde, siluer, or other mettall. Vide in owre. Ibid., Ower, or oore of brasse, cadmia. 1555 Eden Decades 331 Where they saw the vre or myne shewe it selfe. 1567 Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees 1835) 274, ij lods of lead vre pric xxviijs. 1570 Levins Manip. 175/3–6 [riming with A Floore, A Moore heath, A Moore Maurus] Oore of brasse. Oore of siluer [etc.]. 1590 Spenser F.Q. iii. iv. 18 The gravell mixt with golden owre [rimes an howre, in her powre]. 1625 Bacon Ess., Plantations (Arb.) 532 If there be Iron Vre. 1626 ― Sylva §33 A Lump of Ure in the Bottome of a Mine. |
β(In
OE. in sense ‘brass’; in 1225
= ‘metal’.)
| [c 725 Corpus Gloss. (O.E.T.) 255 Aurocælcum groeni aar. c 897 K. ælfred Gregory's Past. xxxvii. (Sw.) 267 Hie wurdon ᵹehwierfde inne on ðam ofne to are & to tine, & to iserne & to leade. c 1000 ælfric Gram. vi. (Z.) 15 Aes bræs oððe ár, aeneus bræsen oþþe æren.] a 1225 Ancr. R. 284 Nis þet iren acursed [v.r. or (note in C. Golt, seluer, stel, irn, copper, mestling, breas: al is icleopet or)]. 1297 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 16 Vor engelonde is vol inoȝ..Of seluer or & of gold, of tyn & ek of lede, Of stel, of yre, & of bras. 1340–70 Alex. & Dind. 525 Þere þe grauel of þe ground was of gold ore. 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) II. 17 Þe erþe of that lond is copious of metal ore & of salt welles. Ibid. 79 Salt welles, metal, and oor [mineras et metalla]. 14.. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 596/12 Mineria, anglice a myne vel Ore, vel minera secundum quosdam et anglice ore.., as goold ore, syluer ore, etc. 1519 Interlude Four Elem. in Hazl. Dodsley I. 30 They have none iron, Whereby they should in the earth mine, To search for any wore [rime therefore]. 1562 Act 5 Eliz. c. 4 §30 A..Burner of Oare and Wood-Ashes. 1631 E. Jorden Nat. Bathes x. (1669) 70 For Iron, we have the Oar in abundance. 1667 Dryden Ind. Emperor i. i, Where golden Ore lyes mixt with common Sand. 1728 T. Sheridan Persius ii. (1739) 35 To run the Gold from its Oar. 1853 W. Gregory Inorg. Chem. (ed. 3) 242 This is the common ore of antimony. 1886 A. Winchell Walks Geol. Field 124 Each of these layers is called a comb, and the whole is styled the gangue. The metalliferous layer is the ore. 1910 J. F. Kemp in Jrnl. Canadian Mining Inst. XII. 357 Sometimes..in the mining of the non-metallic substance sulphur, the output of the mine is called ‘sulphur-ore’, although no metal is involved at all. Yet while we may not especially controvert this usage, it cannot be said to seriously affect the general and large conception of ore as limited to the metalliferous minerals. 1913 W. Lindgren Mineral Deposits i. 4 The use of the term ‘ore’ is not quite consistent. Ordinarily it implies a metal, but the expression ‘sulphur ore’, meaning pyrite, is sometimes seen, and occasionally such terms as ‘sapphire ore’ are found. 1939 G. A. Roush Strategic Mineral Supplies xiv. 401 The deposits of ore, or caliche, are highly irregular. 1951 A. F. Taggart Elem. Ore Dressing i. 2 The miner was principally responsible for making ore of the low-grade California gravels by discovering ways to mine them that are..cheap. 1970 Materials & Technol. III. ii. 97 There are no fundamental differences between the treatment of metalliferous ores and other types of ore. |
b. with
an and
pl. A quality or kind of ore.
| α c 900 tr. Bæda's Hist. i. i. (1890) 26 Swylce hit is eac berende on wecga orum ares & isernes, leades & seolfres. 1454 Rolls of Parlt. V. 272/1 Many Mynes of Silver Oures. |
| β 1666 Boyle Orig. Formes & Qual., Melting the Oares to reduce them into perfect metal. 1768 Pennant Zool. I. Pref., Silver is found in great abundance in our lead ores. 1826 Henry Elem. Chem. II. 583 Ores of manganese. 1874 Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 449 Foreign ores, which contain on an average 1 per cent. of silver. About half of these are ‘dry ores’, i.e. ores containing no appreciable amount of lead. |
c. fig.| a 1628 F. Grevil Mustapha Chorus iii. Poems (1633) 124 Whom I choose As my Anointed, from the Potters oare. 1642 Fuller Holy & Prof. St. ii. xviii. 116 The good Yeoman is a Gentleman in Ore. 1711 Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) III. 255 From the rich oar of our early poets. 1801 W. Godwin Chaucer (1804) I. xv. 477 Mandeville, Wicliffe and Gower..did not begin so early to work upon the ore of their native language. 1861 Clough Mari Magno 828 An intellect so charming in the ore. |
2. Metal,
esp. precious metal. Chiefly
poetic.
| 1639 G. Daniel Ecclus. i. 6 He did repaire the Cisternes, and restore Salomon's Ruines, in the Sea of Ore [? the molten sea, 1 Ki. vii. 23]. 1709 Addison Tatler No. 116 ¶9, I consider Woman as a beautiful Romantick Animal, that may be adorned with Furs and Feathers, Pearls and Diamonds, Ores and Silks. a 1763 Shenstone Elegies ix. 49 Let others toil to gain the sordid ore. 1830 Tennyson Arab. Nts. xiv, A rich Throne of the massive ore. |
3. attrib. and
Comb. a. simple
attrib., as
ore brokerage,
† ore debt,
ore extraction,
ore freight,
ore impregnation,
ore market,
ore shipment,
ore supply, etc.; consisting of or containing ore, as
ore-band,
ore-bed (
bed n. 13 b),
ore-channel,
ore-chimney,
ore-deposit,
ore-dump,
ore-ground,
ore-mass,
ore-pit,
ore-pocket,
ore-shoot,
ore-stope,
ore-streak,
ore-vein, etc.; used in the gaining or working of ore, as
ore-apparatus,
ore-bin,
ore-bucket,
ore-car,
ore-chute,
ore-dish,
ore-furnace,
ore-house,
ore-mill,
ore-pass,
ore-stamp, etc.
b. objective and
obj. gen., as
ore-bearing,
ore-buying,
ore-calcining,
ore-carrying,
ore-crushing,
ore-dressing,
ore-extracting,
ore-milling,
ore-roasting,
ore-smelting, etc.,
vbl. ns. and
ppl. adjs.;
ore-assorter,
ore-breaker,
ore-carrier,
ore-crusher,
ore-dresser,
ore-drier,
ore-feeder,
ore-hauler,
ore-separator,
ore-sorter,
ore-washer, etc.
c. Special combs.:
ore body, a body or connected mass of ore in a mine, as a vein, bed, pocket, etc.;
ore-breast, the face or breadth of the working of a body of ore;
† ore-coal, ? a name for coal in thick seams;
ore-concentrator = concentrator 3;
ore-hearth, a form of small reducing furnace made of cast-iron, used in lead-smelting; a Scotch or blast hearth;
ore-shoot = shoot n.1 7. Also
oredelf.
| 1881 Rep. Geol. Expl. N. Zealand 5 A trench cut to intersect the *ore-band at about 20 feet from the outcrop. |
| 1877 Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 174 The principal *ore-bearing deposits in this mine. |
| 1796 Morse Amer. Geog. I. 441 At this *ore-bed are a variety of ores. |
| 1935 Economist 8 June 1334/1 It will be necessary..to sink the shaft..below the reef and to cut stations and *ore bins. 1962 R. B. Fuller Epic Poem on Industrialization 197 The magnificent horizontal and vertical lines of its highways,..ore bins, and skyscrapers. |
| 1872 Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 25 This vein has shown thus far three separate *ore bodies. 1955 Times 12 July 15/6 Difficulties being met are the poor bearing quality of the ground..and the presence of unconsolidated footwall beds associated with considerable volumes of water in No. 1 shaft area—which is holding up the advance towards the orebody. 1971 Wall St. Jrnl. 19 Feb. 20/5 Bad weather during the past three weeks delayed stripping of the overburden of the Black Cub orebody. 1977 Bulletin (Sydney) 22 Jan. 42/1 But a mineral deposit doesn't become an orebody unless the mineral concerned can be extracted and sold at a profit. |
| 1877 Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 447 From the *ore-breaker the ore went through a chute to the first set of steel rolls below. |
| Ibid. 48 On the 800-foot level the *ore-breasts are about 100 feet in width, with but little waste-rock. |
| 1912 Chambers's Jrnl. Dec. 784/2 The men..had begun to send the *ore-buckets down empty. |
| 1893 Gunter Miss Dividends 189 There are two *ore-cars running on tracks in this shaft, to the lower level of the mine. |
| 1936 Atlantic Monthly CLVII. 164/2 Our great..*ore-carriers..are no exception, because their existence is due to the State's primary intervention in granting monopoly rights to the rental value of the..ore-fields they tap. 1975 ‘D. Jordan’ Black Account viii. 46 Ore shipping studies comparing the capacity of Japanese ore carriers with the proposed berthing and loading facilities. |
| 1909 Westm. Gaz. 29 Nov. 8/2 During the storm three *ore-carrying steamers were beached near the entrance to the harbour. |
| 1874 Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 517 None had, however, struck the *ore-channel. |
| 1882 Rep. to Ho. Repr. Prec. Metals U.S. 195 The *ore chimney is from 250 to 300 feet in length, and the ore is all taken out above the tunnel. |
| 1874 Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 32 The entire product of the mine will be run out through this tunnel..to the *ore-chute. |
| 1603 Owen Pembrokeshire (1891) 91 An *ore Coale..the oare is the best and is a great vayne spreadinge euery way and endureth longest. |
| 1882 Rep. to Ho. Repr. Prec. Metals U.S. 597 There have been in California many inventions in *ore crushing. Ibid., There should be no mistakes made as to the value of new ore-crushing machines. |
| 1653 E. Manlove Customs Lead-Mines (E.D.S.) 106 If they such sutes in other Courts commence, They lose their due *oar-debt for such offence. |
| 1709 J. Ward Introd. Math. i. iii. (1734) 36 The Miners bought and sold their Lead Ore by a Measure which they call'd an *Ore Dish. |
| 1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia IV. 194/2 This ability of the *ore dresser to modify the flotability of minerals made possible many seemingly magical separations. |
| 1862 Dublin Rev. Nov. 18 The degrading toil of *ore-dressing or nail⁓making. 1909 H. Louis Dressing of Minerals i. 4 It appears better to treat coal-washing and ore-dressing as one and the same subject. 1914 S. J. Truscott tr. Beyschlag's Deposits Useful Minerals I. 72 There should be at least sufficient iron present..to cover the costs of ore-dressing and of metallurgical treatment. 1946 Nature 27 July 140/1 To provide an information service dealing with publications concerning all branches of geology, mineralogy,..ore-dressing and production metallurgy. |
| 1895 Westm. Gaz. 28 Sept. 4/2, I took three samples, and also one from the *ore dump. |
| 1877 Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 48 Automatic *ore-feeders are coming into general use. |
| 1884 Pall Mall G. 13 Sept. 5/1 That the process of *ore-forming still goes on beneath the earth's surface at the present day. |
| 1874 J. H. Collins Metal Mining (1875) 53 Shafts are sunk until the *ore-ground is reached. |
| 1825 J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 356 The smelting of the [lead] ore is performed by either a blast-furnace, called an *ore-hearth, or a reverberatory-furnace. 1862 Times 9 Sept., The smelting of lead in the ‘ore-hearth’. |
| 1886 A. Winchell Walks Geol. Field 126 The *ore-masses are huge lenticular accumulations. |
| 1878 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 453/2 E the main lode, H permanent levels, and K *ore-pass reserved amidst the rubbish (deads) D. |
| 1877 Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 177 Within a foot of the surface, and covered only by the remains of the disintegrated *ore-shoot. 1884 J. A. Phillips Treat. Ore Deposits 50 As a general rule, all the ore-shoots in a given vein dip in the same direction. 1944 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. C. 251 A mineral vein may carry several ore-shoots, separated by barren stretches. |
| 1877 Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 26 The *ore-sorters constitute quite a large force. |
| Ibid. 23 An *ore-stope was opened and a considerable amount of ore extracted. |
| 1872 Ibid. 331 An *ore-streak 2 feet wide, composed of lead, zinc, gray copper, and iron sulphurets. |
| 1882 Rep. to Ho. Repr. Prec. Metals U.S. 584 A patent has recently been granted..for an *ore-washer which has some peculiarities. |
| 1906 Chambers's Jrnl. Feb. 159/2 A few digs with the shovel laid bare the outcropping of the *ore-vein. |
▪ III. † ore3 Obs. rare.
[OE. ór, beginning, origin, front, van.] Beginning.
| Beowulf (Z.) 2407 Se ðæs orleᵹes or on-stealde. a 1000 Andreas 649 Secᵹan or and ende. a 1200 Moral Ode 179 (Lamb. MS.) Þer hi sculen wunien a buten are [Trin., Egert., Jesus ore] and ende. |
▪ IV. ore4 (
ɔə(r))
1. A modern adaptation of
OE. óra,
ora1, sometimes used by historical writers.
| 1610 Holland Camden's Brit. i. 256, I have observed thus much, that twentie Ores are worth two Markes of silver. 1650 C. Elderfield Tythes 85 For every ceorle or husband⁓man twelve ores. 1817 Scott Harold i. xv, And you, you cowl'd priests, who have plenty in store, Must give Gunnar for ransom a palfrey and ore. 1872 E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 134 The two ores of 16d. which were paid to the king from the Lancashire carucate. |
‖ 2. Properly
öre (
{obar}rə): The smallest denomination in the coinage of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, the hundredth part of a
krone, about equal to a German
pfennig; a copper coin of this value.
| 1716 Lond. Gaz. No. 5439/3 A Silver Coin called 15 Ore Pieces are advanced to 16 Ore. 1756 Rolt Dict. Trade, Ore..a copper coin of Sweden; being 7–12ths of an English penny; and 96 of them make the rix-dollar, or 4s. 8d. sterling. 1899 Whitaker's Almanack 701 Silver coins..Denmark..1 krone of 100 ore. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 29 Aug. 8/2 In Copenhagen..a premium of ten ore per rat is being paid for every one of the rodents produced whole but dead. |
▪ V. ore5 local.
(
ɔə(r))
Also 7
wore,
woore,
oore, 8
oare.
[For earlier wore, woore:—OE. wár seaweed, whence the more frequent northern form ware, q.v.] Seaweed,
esp. such as is cast on the shore and gathered for manure: also called
sea-ore,
† float-ore, and
ore-weed.
| 1592 in J. Lewis Hist. Thanet (1736) App. 89 To forbid and restraine the burning or takinge up of any Sea Oare within the Ile of Thanet. 1602 Carew Cornwall 27 b, To this purpose also serueth Orewood, which is a weed growing vpon the rockes vnder high water marke... His vse serueth for barly land. Some accustomed to burne it on heapes... This Floteore is now and then found naturally formed like rufs, combs, and such like. 1674–91 Ray N.C. Words, Weir, Waar, sea-wrack... The Thanet men (saith Somner) call it wore or woore. 17.. Dr. T. More in Ray's S. & E. Words (1874), Oore, sea-wrack. 1841 S. C. Hall Ireland I. 73 His little car, which was filled with sea ore. 1847–78 Halliwell, Ore, sea-weed, used for manure. South. 1875 Sussex Gloss., Ore, sea-weeds washed on shore by the tides. |
Hence
ˈore-stone (
local), a rock covered with seaweed;
ˈory adj. dial., seaweedy. Also
ore-weed,
q.v.| 1854 N. & Q. 1st Ser. X. 359 (Gloss. Polperro in Cornwall) Orestone, the name of some large single rocks in the sea, not far from land. Some fishes when cooked are said to taste ory, some things to smell ory; that is, like the sea-beach. |
▪ VI. † ore6 Obs. rare.
[ad. L. ōra: see ora2.] Shore, coast.
| 1652 B. Holyday Horace Odes i. i, That other, if he in his garnier Stores Whatever hath been swept from Lybian ores. 1661 [see next]. |
▪ VII. † ore7 Obs. [Of unascertained origin. (Blount Glossogr. appears to explain it from ore6.)] In
Lemster (i.e. Leominster) ore, a name for a fine kind of wool.
| 1612 Drayton Poly-olb. vii. 104 To whom did neuer sound the name of Lemster Ore? That with the Silke-wormes web for smalness doth compare. 1648 Herrick Hesper., Oberon's Palace 28 A bank of mosse..farre more Soft then the finest Lemster ore. a 1661 Fuller Worthies 33 As for the wooll in this county, it is best known to the honour thereof by the name of Lempster ore, being absolutely the finest in this county, and indeed in all England. [1661 Blount Glossogr. (ed. 2), Ore (ora), the end or extreme part; a Region Land or Country: Thus Lempsters Ore is that fertile part of Herefordshire, which lyes about two miles round that Town.] |
▪ VIII. ore var. hor,
her Obs. their;
obs. f. hore,
hour,
oar,
or,
our.
▪ IX. ore, o're, ore- obs. ff.
o'er,
over,
over-.