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▪ I. ora1 Hist.|ˈɔərə|
[OE., app. ad. ON. øyrir or its pl. aurar: commonly regarded as ad. L. aure-us golden; but the sense-history is not clear. Cf. ore4.]
1. A Danish money of account, introduced into England with the Danish invasion.
In the Laws of Edward the Elder and Guthrun, it is reckoned as equivalent to 2½ shillings, in Domesday book as equal to 20 d.
c920Laws of Edw. & Guthr. c. 7 (Schmid) Þolie..twelf orena mid Denum, and xxx scill. mid Englum. c950Lindisf. Gosp. Luke xix. 13 Woeron ᵹeceᵹid ðonne teno ðrælas his, salde ðæm tea oro vel libras, & cuoeð to ðæm, ceapiᵹas oð þ̶ ic cymo. c1000Laws of æthelred iii. c. 1 (Schmid) Bete man þæt æt deadum menn mid vi healf-marce, and æt cwicon mid xii oran. 1706Phillips, Ora, a Saxon Coin of the value of one Shilling and four Pence. 1838Encycl. Brit. (ed. 7) XVI. 514/2 Dr. Hickes observes, that the mode of reckoning money by marcs and oras was never known in England until after the settlement of the Danes. 1851D. Wilson Preh. Ann. (1863) I. ii. vi. 445 Upon the altar was placed a ring without any joint of the value of two oras. 1875Jevons Money viii. 71 The mark, the ora, and the thrimsa were other moneys of account used by the Anglo-Saxons.
2. A measure of weight: see quot. 1838.
1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 519 This Citie payd yeerely to the King 30 pounds by tale, and twenty in ora (or in ore) that is by weight. 1707Fleetwood Chron. Prec. (1745) 25 So that 15 oræ make a pound. 1838Encycl. Brit. (ed. 7) XVI. 514/2 In Doomsday-book the ora is used for the ounce, or the twelfth part of the nummulary Saxon pound, and the fifteenth of the commercial.
▪ II. ‖ ora2|ˈɔərə|
[L., = border, brim, coast, shore.]
1. Entom. The inflexed or inferior lateral margin of the prothorax.
1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. III. 368 Prothorax,..called by way of eminence the Thorax. It includes the Ora, Patagia, Umbones, and Phragma.
2. ‘The edge or border of an ulcer’ (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1892).
3. ora serrata Anat. [L. serrātus serrate a.], the serrated edge of the retina, just behind the ciliary body.
1839K. Grant Hooper's Lexicon Medicum (ed. 7) 963/2 Ora serrata, the posterior serrated edge of the ciliary processes is so called. 1849S. G. Morton Illustr. Syst. Human Anat. 606 The retina..terminates behind the ciliary body in an irregular border, ora serrata. 1908L. Laurance Eye i. 17 The sensibility of the retina to light diminishes rapidly from the macula ring to the ora serrata. 1973Brain Res. LXIII. 285 Such new cells as are added after this period are added at the margin of the ora serrata.
▪ III. ora
variant of orra Sc., odd. |