Ure

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  • n. use, practise, exercise.
  • v. To use; to exercise; to inure; to accustom by practice.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Use; practice; exercise.
  • v. To use; to exercise; to inure; to accustom by practice.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Operation; use; practice.
  • To work; practise; inure; exercise.
  • n. Fortune; destiny.
  • n. The urus.
  • A Middle English form of our.
  • n. A Middle English form of hour.
  • n. Soil: as, an ill ure (a bad soil).
  • n. See ewer.
  • n. A termination of Latin origin, appearing in the formation of many nouns, as in aperture, armature, juncture, scripture, texture, fissure, pressure, etc. It is sometimes used as an English formative, as in wafture.
  • Word Usage
    "I. iii.12 (21,5) [(A man of stricture and firm abstinence)] [W: strict ure] _Stricture_ may easily be used for _strictness_; _ure_ is indeed an old word, but, I think, always applied to things, never to persons."
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    use    practice    exercise    inure   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Darfur    Pasteur    doer    grandeur    poor    poore    raconteur    voyeur