▪ I. † vitre, n. Obs. rare.
Also 5 vytre.
[a. F. vitre, ad. L. vitrum vitrum.]
Glass.
| c 1420 Lydg. Ballad Commend. Our Lady 113 O glorious viole, O vitre inviolate! 1599 A. Hume Hymnes iii. 55 The glansing thains, and vitre bright, Resplends against the sunne. |
▪ II. † vitre, a. Obs. rare.
[ad. F. vitré, or L. vitreus, f. vitrum glass.]
= vitreous a. 2 a.
| c 1530 Judic. Urines ii. v. 24 The .v. spice of flewme is called fleume vitrium..anglice a flewme vitre. Ibid. ii. ix. 36 b A fleume vitre, and a whyte fleume be all one. |
▪ III. vitre
variant of vitry Obs.