† lauryn.
Obsolete.
= laurel n.1
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a1400 Med. MS. in Archæol. XXX. 368 Whanne yis erbe is gaderid yus, In lewys of lorry it must be wounnde.
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 577/26 Dampnis, a loreytre.
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 592/4 Laurus, a loreytre.
a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 245 Al the grene is fadid, outake the Pynes, lorreis, olyues, and few othyr tren.
1508 W. Dunbar Ballade Barnard Stewart in Poems (1998) I. 179 Thi cristall helme withe lawry suld be crownyt.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 101 Vpone a blisfull brenche of lawry grene.
1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1822) ii. 181 He wald not ressave the crown of laurew [v.r. laurer], to have the samin deformit with the public doloure.
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. C.vij Daphnoides called of the commune sort Laureola, in englishe, Lauriel, Lorel, or Loury.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 47 The laurye tree.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Laureola, the herbe perwinkle. Also the shrub lowrie or lawrell.
1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem (1751) 106 Turpentine and larie berries.
1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem (1751) 121 Trembling he stood, in a quandary, And purg'd, as he had eaten lary.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Lowry or Lowaray, a Shrub, otherwise call'd Spurge-Laurel.
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