Obs. Also 7 owre. [a. OF. ure (16th c.), or ad. L. ūrus URUS. Cf. OE. úr, OHG. (MHG.) ûr, ON. úrr.] = URUS, AUROCHS.
1563. Golding, Cæsar (1565), 163. Ures … are of bignes somwhat lesse than Elephantes, in kind and color and shape like a Bull.
1577. Harrison, England, III. iv. (1878), II. 29. As for the plowing with vres (which I suppose to be vnlikelie) and alkes.
1600. Fairfax, Tasso, III. xxxii. The swift Vre by Volgaes rolling flood.
1668. Charleton, Onomasticon, 6. Urus Jubatus, the Owre.
[1706. Philips (ed. Kersey), Owre, a kind of wild Bull. (Hence in Bailey and some later Dicts.]
