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ure

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

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Definition of ure

6 senses · 4 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (obsolete, uncountable)Use, practise, exercise.
    “I cannot vtter any more, for words waxe out of vre”
    “But come, let vs be sure of this, to put the best in vre That lies in vs;”
    “...it maketh him practise simulation in other things, lest his hand should be out of ure”
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noun

  1. (obsolete, uncountable)Use, practise, exercise.
    “I cannot vtter any more, for words waxe out of vre”
    “But come, let vs be sure of this, to put the best in vre That lies in vs;”
    “...it maketh him practise simulation in other things, lest his hand should be out of ure”
  2. (rare)Synonym of aurochs.
    “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. (ambitransitive, obsolete)To use; to exercise; to inure; to accustom by practice.
    “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. (Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, contraction, informal, rare)Abbreviation of you're (you are).

name

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

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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.

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