Obs. Also 3 loar. [OE. lor, ? neut. f. *lor-, lur-, wk. grade of Teut. root *leus-: see LEESE v.1 Cf. LOSS sb.] Loss, destruction.
971. Blickl. Hom., 69. To hwon sceolde þeos smyrenes þus beon to lore ʓedon?
c. 1250. Gen. & Ex., 177. And him to pine, and loar her, God made wirme and wilde der.
c. 1330. Spec. Gy Warw., 187. Hij sholen haue euere among Lore of catel and seknesse.
c. 1430. Syr Gener. (Roxb.), 5457. That othre were grete shame and lore, I shal tel you wel wherfore.
14[?]. Stacyons of Rome, 642, in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866), 137. The thyrde parte of alle þy lore.
