[a. F. loir:—pop. L. *glĭrem, for glīr-em, glīs.] The Fat Dormouse (Myoxus glis).
1774. Goldsm., Nat. Hist. (1776), IV. 76. The greater dormouse, which Mr. Buffon calls the Loir.
1801. Hel. M. Williams, Sk. Fr. Rep., I. xxi. 314. I call them rats, from their almost perfect resemblance to that animal … but their real name is the Loir.
1884. Evang. Mag., March, 117. The Loir, or fat dormouse of France.
1885. Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888), V. 116. The two large European species, the Loir (Myoxus glis) and the Lerot (Eliomys nitela).
