Also erron. lori, lory. [a. F. loris (Buffon); said to be a. Du. † loeris booby, clown.] a. A small nocturnal climbing quadrumanous mammal (Loris gracilis), a native of Ceylon; it is tailless, and remarkable for its slender form, long limbs, and large eyes. Called more fully slender loris. b. Extended to lemurs of the related genus Nycticebus, as N. tardigradus, the slow lemur or KUKANG, and N. cinereus, the gray loris of Siam and Cochin China.
1774. Goldsm., Nat. Hist., II. 373. A little four-handed animal of the Island of Ceylon, which Mr. Buffon calls the lori.
1781. Pennant, Hist. Quadrupeds, I. 213. Loris…. Monkey with a produced dog-like visage.
1802. Bingley, Anim. Biog. (1813), I. 101. This Loris is about the size of a small Cat.
1835. Kirby, Hab. & Inst. Anim., II. xxiv. 477. The lory, or sloth ape, so called from the excessive slowness of its movements.
1859. Tennent, Ceylon, I. 133. The little loris, which … has acquired the name of the ‘Ceylon Sloth.’
1861, 1883. [see KUKANG].
1891. Flower & Lydekker, Mammals, 692. The Gray Loris (Nycticebus cinereus).
