| 释义 |
† laure Obs.
Also 1 laur, lawer.
[OE. laur, ad. L. laurus. Cf. OF. laure (perh. the source in ME.).]
The laurel or bay-tree; also, the leaves of the same woven into a chaplet. Also laure tree.
971Blickl. Hom. 187 Simon..mid lawere ᵹebeaᵹod ongan fleoᵹan. c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 20 Wiþ healfes heafdes ece, ᵹenim laures croppan dust. c1384Chaucer H. Fame iii. 17 Thou shalt see me go Unto the nexte laure I see And kisse hit for hit is thy tree. 1549Compl. Scotl. xvii. 149 He vas crounit vitht ane croune of laure tre. 1567Gude & Godlie Ball. (S.T.S.) 98 Sum tyme a Tyrane flureis haif I sene Lyke lawre tre, quhilk euer growis grene. |