urus
The aurochs.
Noun
- The aurochs.
- Howbeit, that country bringeth forth certain kinds of goodly great wild bœufes: to wit, the Biſontes, mained with a collar, like Lions: and the Vri, a mightie ſtrong beaſt, and a ſwift: which the ignorant people call...
- He also brought forth two large drinking cups, made out of the horn of the urus, and hooped with silver. - 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
- Eduard Hahn has postulated that the motive for capturing and maintaining the urus in the captive state was to have available a supply, for sacrificial purposes, of the animal sacred to the lunar mother goddess...
Origin
From Latin ūrus. Doublet of ure (“aurochs”).
Forms
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Noun alt of, alternative
- Alternative spelling of urs.