v. Obs. (exc. dial.). Also 4–5 vowre, 6 vower-. [Aphetic f. DEVOUR v., perh. after L. vorāre.] trans. To devour, to eat.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. Wace (Rolls), 10318. In þe water … Are fisches inne foure maners:… Ne þe fisches alle foure, Ne wyþ oþer menge ne voure.
1382. Wyclif, Exod. xii. 9. The heed with his feet and entrayls ȝe shulen vowre.
1412–20. Lydg., Chron. Troy, V. 1644. He hath … made hir bern out of þe tovnis boundis To be vowrid of bestis & of houndis.
[a. 1881. Isle of Wight Gloss., 41.]
Hence † Vourer, a devourer. Obs. rare.
1382. Wyclif, Luke vii. 34. Lo! a man deuourere [v.r. vourer], ether glotoun.
1533. Tindale, Supper of Lord, c vj b. I am here compelled to inculpe and iterat it wyth so many wordes, to satisfye … thys carnall fleshe vowerer and fleshly Iewes.
