Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In zoology, the lore, as of a bird or reptile.
- noun In entomology, same as
lora and lore, 4.
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Examples
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The “pig-gee” (as some term the lorum) is used with almost surgical delicacy of touch to hook away two or three of the leaves.
Tropic Days 2003
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"pig-gee" (as some term the lorum) is used with almost surgical delicacy of touch to hook away two or three of the leaves.
Tropic Days 1887
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Ay, and ‘Rato-lorum’ too; and a gentleman born, master parson; who writes himself ‘Armigero,’ in any bill, warrant, quittance, or obligation,
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Recent proof has been obtained of the use of the lorum of one of the creeping palms, from which all the spurs save three at the thicker end were scraped off.
Tropic Days 2003
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About two feet of the thong or lorum of one of the creeping palms (CALAMUS OBSTRUENS) is all that is necessary.
Tropic Days 2003
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Prisoner's base, rounders, high-cock-a-lorum, cricket, football — he was soon initiated into the delights of them all; and though most of the boys were older than himself, he managed to hold his own very well.
Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971
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-- Without contraverting Mr. Singer's learned and interesting paper on this word (No. 19.p. 292.), I hope I shall not be thought presumptuous in remarking that there must have been some other root in the Teutonic language for the two following nouns, leer (Dutch) and lear (Flemish), which both signify leather (lorum, Lat.), and their diminutives or derivatives leer-ig and lear-ig, both used in the sense of _tough_.
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Ay, and rato-lorum too; and a gentleman born, Master Parson; who writes himself armigero, in any bill, warrant, quittance, or obligation, armigero.
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There is serious reason to believe, though the details cannot be gone into here, that the lorum is represented by the "armill", though this is now a sort of stole which two or three centuries back was tied at the elbows.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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"Divine enfolding" (divinae circumdationis), which agrees much better with a wrap like the lorum than with a stole or bracelet.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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