Obs. [f. TORY sb.]
1. intr. To live as an Irish Tory or outlaw.
1651. G. Rawdon, Lett., 24 Dec., in St. Pap., Irel., CCLXXXII. 104 (P.R.O.). Sir Phill and Cormack Mulhallon Torye about Braintree woodes; soe that they cannot stirr out of Charlemount but with a considerable strengthe.
1655. [V. Gookin], Gt. Case Transpl. Irel., 21. Many Inhabitants, who are able to subsist on their Gardens in their present Habitations,… will rather choose the hazard of Torying, than the apparent danger of starving [in Connaught].
2. trans. To becall or nickname Tory.
1681. T. Flatman, Heraclitus Ridens, No. 34 (1713), I. 218. [They] shall pass for white Boys, and have never a word said to them for Torying, Tantivying and Masquerading his Majesty’s most loyal and dutiful Subjects.
