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▪ I. lory|ˈlɔərɪ|
Forms: 7 lourey, 8 laurey, lowry, 8–9 loory, lury, 9 loeri, lorie, lowrie, 8– lory.
[a. Malay lūrī, dial. var. of nūrī, whence the synonym nory. Cf. F. lori (Buffon).]
A name applied to a number of parrot-like birds of brilliant plumage, chiefly bristle-tongued and belonging to the family Loriinæ, found in South-eastern Asia, the Asiatic Archipelago, and Australia. Cf. loerie.
1692Lond. Gaz. No. 2811/4 An East-India Lourey, Paraquits, and several other outlandish Birds. 1704tr. Nieuhoff's Voy. E.-Indies in Churchill's Voy. II. 357 The Lory Bird is a Bird as big as a Parrot, but of a much finer Colour. 1731E. Albin Nat. Hist. Birds I. 13 The Laurey. 1751G. Edwards Nat. Hist. Birds IV. 173 The Long-tailed Scarlet Lory... It differs principally from the three last foregoing Lories, in being smaller. Ibid. 174 The Lory-Parakeet. 1779Forrest Voy. N. Guinea 112 From Saba and Sao are brought large red loories, also black ones. 1800Asiat. Ann. Reg., Misc. Tracts 208/2 The most remarkable birds to be seen in Amboyna are luries. 1810Southey Kehama x. xix, 'Twas Camdeo riding on his lory, 'Twas the immortal Youth of Love. 1848H. W. Haygarth Recoll. Bush Life Austral. xii. 139 The lorie, with his splendid livery of blue and green. 1850Clutterbuck Port Phillip iii. 40 The King Parrot is the most beautiful, and that called the Lowrie is, perhaps, the most docile. 1859H. Kingsley G. Hamlyn xviii. (1894) 147 Flaming lories..fly whistling..through the gloomy forest.
▪ II. lory, loryel
see loris, laurel. |