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Mure vs Ure - What's the difference?

mure | ure |

As a verb mure

is to die.

As a noun ure is

.

mure

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) wall
    • (Shakespeare)
    No, no; he cannot long hold out these pangs.
    Th' incessant care and labour of his mind
    Hath wrought the mure that should confine it in
  • :— Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II, [IV, 4], line 2870
  • (obsolete) husks of fruit from which the juice has been squeezed. Perhaps an old spelling of myrrh

    • References

    * Meaning "Husks of fruit": 1949', John Dover Wilson (compiler), ' Life in Shakespeare's England. A Book of Elizabethan Prose , Cambridge at the University Press. 1st ed. 1911, 2nd ed. 1913, 8th reprint. In Glossary and Notes. From Wright's Dialect Dict.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) mural (as a postmodifier)

    • Verb

  • (obsolete) to wall in or fortify
  • (obsolete) To enclose or imprison within walls.
    • (Spenser)
    The five kings are mured in a cave. — John. x. (Heading).

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    ure

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete, only in collocation in ure) .
  • * Chapman
    • Let us be sure of this, to put the best in ure / That lies in us.

    Verb

    (ur)
  • (obsolete) To use; to exercise; to inure; to accustom by practice.
    • The French soldiers from their youth have been practiced and ured in feats of arms. — Sir T. More.

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