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.
971. Blickl. Hom., 187. Simon … mid lawere ʓebeaʓod ongan fleoʓan.
c. 1000. Sax. Leechd., II. 20. Wiþ healfes heafdes ece, ʓenim laures croppan dust.
c. 1384. Chaucer, H. Fame, III. 17. Thou shalt see me go Unto the nexte laure I see And kisse hit for hit is thy tree.
1549. Compl. Scotl., xvii. 149. He vas crounit vitht ane croune of laure tre.
1567. Gude & Godlie Ball. (S.T.S.), 98. Sum tyme a Tyrane flureis haif I sene Lyke lawre tre, quhilk euer growis grene.
