local Sc. [a. ON. úr drizzling rain.]
1. A damp mist.
1818. Edinburgh Mag., Sept., 155/1. The mune be this was shinan clearly abune a’ the ure.
a. 1824. in Mactaggart, Gallovid. Encycl., 333. Glowring at the azure sky, And loomy oceans ure.
2. An atmospheric haze, esp. of a colored nature. Freq. dry ure.
a. 1824. in Mactaggart, Gallovid. Encycl., 455. The east was blae, dry ure bespread the hills.
1824. Mactaggart, Ibid., 455. Ure, a kind of coloured haze, which the sun-beams make in the summer time.
1875. J. Veitch, Tweed & other Poems, 49. The dry ure glow of sky-enkindled flame.
