Also urary, urare; ourari, oorara. [See CURARE, and cf. URALI, OORALI, WOORALI.] (See quots. 1859, 1866.)
α. 1838. in Annals Nat. Hist. (1841), VII. 417. The whole of the Urary is poured by degrees through the small funnel.
1876. Daily News, 21 June, 2. The prohibition of the use of urari as an anæsthetic.
β. 1859. A. S. Taylor, On Poisons (ed. 2), 771. The poison known under the name of … Woorali, Oorara, and Curara.
1866. Treas. Bot., 1106. Strychnos toxifera also yields a frightful poison called Ourari…, employed by the natives of Guiana.
b. attrib. and Comb., as urari-house, -maker, poison; urari bark, bark of the urari plant, Strychnos toxifera.
1838. in Annals Nat. Hist. (1841), VII. 416. I was fortunate enough in purchasing a quake or basket of Urary bark. Ibid. The much-famed Urary poison. Ibid., 417. Other fire than that made by the Urary-maker is not allowed to come under the roof of the Urary-house. Ibid. (1841), 415. The pure bark of the Urari plant, Strychnos toxifera.
1862. Miller, Elem. Chem., Org. (ed. 2), 502. The Urari or woorara poison of South America.
