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lore | gore |

As an adjective lore

is their.

As a proper noun gore is

.

lore

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) lore, from (etyl) '', German ''Lehre . See also (l).

Noun

  • all the facts and traditions about a particular subject that have been accumulated over time through education or experience.
    • the lore of the Ancient Egyptians
  • * Milton
    • His fair offspring, nursed in princely lore .
  • The backstory created around a fictional universe.
  • (obsolete) workmanship
    • (Spenser)
    Derived terms
    * birdlore * booklore * catlore * doglore * faxlore * fishlore * folklore * photocopylore * woodlore * wortlore * xeroxlore

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (anatomy) The region between the eyes and nostrils of birds, reptiles, and amphibians.
  • (anatomy) The anterior portion of the cheeks of insects.
    • Derived terms
    * lored

    Etymology 3

    Verb

    (head)
  • (obsolete) (lose)
  • * Spenser
    • Neither of them she found where she them lore .

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    gore

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (-)
  • Dirt, filth.
    • (Bishop Fisher)
  • (senseid)Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
  • Murder, bloodshed, violence.
    • Derived terms
    *

    Etymology 2

    Probably from .

    Verb

    (gor)
  • (of an animal) To pierce with the horns.
    • The bull gored the matador.

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A triangular piece of land where roads meet.
    • (Cowell)
  • A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail, skirt, hot-air balloon, etc.
  • *
    • Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […]  Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores : not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
  • An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.
  • A projecting point.
  • (heraldry) One of the abatements, made of two curved lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point.

    • Verb

    (gor)
  • To cut in a triangular form.
  • To provide with a gore.
    • to gore an apron

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