Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- See
oorie .
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- adjective Chill; having the sensation of cold; drooping; shivering.
- adjective Bleak; melancholy.
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Examples
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Familiar with all the seasons he represents the phases of a northern winter with a frequency characteristic of his clime and of his fortunes; her tempests became anthems in his verse, and the sounding woods "raise his thoughts to Him that walketh on the wings of the wind"; full of pity for the shelterless poor, the "ourie cattle," the
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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"Her bark's waur than her bite," said Mrs. Craig, as she returned to her husband, who felt already some of the ourie symptoms of a henpecked destiny.
The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family John Galt 1809
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L-ourie, and degcribei a conien Willi Ixjrd Norlli. in a letter to F lin, in 1781, 466-403.
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