What is a synonym for "ure"?

Common synonyms include: aurochs.

Ure

contraction, name, noun, verb, slang

contraction, name, noun, verb, slang ·1 syllable ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun

1
Use, practise, exercise. obsolete, uncountable
"I cannot vtter any more, for words waxe out of vre"
2
Synonym of aurochs. rare
"The Vre therefoꝛe ryſeth in the fardeſt partes of all Richmondeſhyꝛe, among the Coterine hilles, in a moſſe, towarde the weſt fourtéene myles beyonde Mydleham."

Verb

1
To use; to exercise; to inure; to accustom by practice. ambitransitive, obsolete
"1551, Ralph Robinson (translator), Utopia (1516) by Thomas More, edited by William Dallam Armes, New York: Macmillan, 1912, Book 1, p. 37, […] the French soldiers […] from their youth have been practised and ured in feats of arms […]"

Contraction

1
Abbreviation of you're (you are). Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, contraction, informal, rare

Proper Noun

1
A river in North Yorkshire, England, which flows through Wensleydale
2
A surname.

Synonyms

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aurochs

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"I cannot vtter any more, for words waxe out of vre"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English ure, from Anglo-Norman *ure, Old French uevre (modern French œuvre), from Latin opera (“work, labor”). Doublet of oeuvre, opera, and opus.

Etymology 2

From Middle French ure or its etymon Latin ūrus. Doublet of urus.

Etymology 3

From Middle English Yore, Jor, from Old English Earp, corrupted from *Ear + ƿ (abbreviation for ƿæter (“water”)); first element from Brythonic *Isurā with loss of intervocalic s, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *isərós (“vigorous, quick”), from *eis(ə, related to Sanskrit इषिरम् (iṣiram, “fast, quick”). Compare the Gaulish river Isara.