Noun: ure
Sample Sentences
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I cannot vtter any more, for words waxe out of vre [1567, Ovid, “The Seconde Booke”, in Arthur Golding, transl., The XV. Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, […], London: […] Willyam Seres […], →OCLC:]
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But come, let vs be sure of this, to put the best in vre
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That lies in vs; [c. 1611, George Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer, London: Nathaniell Butter, Book 17, p. 248:]
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...it maketh him practise simulation in other things, lest his hand should be out of ure [1597-1625, Essays (Francis Bacon) of Francis Bacon, On Simulation and Dissimulation, Random House 1955: Hugh G. Dick, p. 19 _Volume_1.djvu)]
Nouns inflected like ure
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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. See: Middle English Nouns '
ure', French Nouns '
œuvre', Latin Nouns '
opera'.