† laure Obs.
Also 1 laur, lawer.
[OE. laur, ad. L. laurus. Cf. OF. laure (perh. the source in ME.).]
The laurel or bay-tree; also, the leaves of the same woven into a chaplet. Also laure tree.
| 971 Blickl. Hom. 187 Simon..mid lawere ᵹebeaᵹod ongan fleoᵹan. c 1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 20 Wiþ healfes heafdes ece, ᵹenim laures croppan dust. c 1384 Chaucer H. Fame iii. 17 Thou shalt see me go Unto the nexte laure I see And kisse hit for hit is thy tree. 1549 Compl. Scotl. xvii. 149 He vas crounit vitht ane croune of laure tre. 1567 Gude & Godlie Ball. (S.T.S.) 98 Sum tyme a Tyrane flureis haif I sene Lyke lawre tre, quhilk euer growis grene. |