owre

English

Noun

owre (plural owres)

1. Obsolete form of hour.
2. Obsolete form of oar.
3. Obsolete form of ore.
4. Obsolete form of our.
5. (obsolete) The aurochs.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

Anagrams

• Rowe, WORE, ower, wore

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Middle English

Determiner

owre

1. Alternative form of oure

References

• “our(e (pron.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 11 May 2018.

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Scots

Adverb

owre (comparative mair owre, superlative maist owre)

1. Over.
   • 1786 July 31, Robert Burns, “On a Scotch Bard Gone to the West Indies”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire: Printed by John Wilson, →OCLC; reprinted Kilmarnock: James McKie, March 1867, →OCLC, page 184:

     Fareweel, my rhyme-compoſing billie! / Your native ſoil was right ill-willie; / But may ye flouriſh like a lily, / Now bonilie! / I'll toaſt ye in my hindmoſt gillie, / Tho' owre the Sea!

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