▪ I. rore
obs. form of roar.
▪ II. † rore, n. Obs.
[ad. L. rōr-, rōs.]
Dew.
| c 1600 Timon iii. v. (1842) 54 My words, neither aspersed nor inspersed with the flore or rore of eloquence. |
▪ III. rore, v. rare.
(rɔə(r))
Also 5 roryn, rooryn.
[a. MDu. roeren or MLG. rôren to move, stir; but sense 2 may have some other origin.]
1. To turn over, to stir about or up, to trouble.
Still E. Anglian in a special sense: see roarer2.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 437/1 Rooryn, or ruffelyn, amonge dyuerse thyngys (H.P. rooryn or purlyn, amonge sundry thynges), manumitto. 1565 Golding Ovid's Met. iii. 597 [He] rores the water with the teares and sloubring that he made. |
† 2. To exchange, barter. Hence ˈroring vbl. n.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 71/1 Chawngyn, or roryn. supra in Barteryn. Ibid. 437/1 Rooryn, or chaungyn on chaffare for a nother,..cambio. Rorynge,..cambium. |
† 3. To affect with some feeling. Obs.
| 1481 Caxton Reynard (Arb.) 64, I am oftymes rored and prycked in my conscience as to loue god aboue all thynge. |