Sc. Also foor-, fure-, fuor-. [Somewhat obscure; the sense would suggest identification of the first element with FORE adv., but the phonology is in that case abnormal.] a. Late in the day: = far days, forth days (see FAR adv. 3 c, FORTH A. 4 b). b. Broad daylight.

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1535.  Stewart, Cron. Scot., II. 517. The king … left his sueit that tyme, and tuke gud rest, Sleipand rycht sound quhill all the nycht wes past, And on the morne, quhill it wes neir fuir-dais.

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1718.  Ramsay, Christ’s Kirk Gr., III. 17. Be that time it was fair foor days.

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1807.  J. Stagg, Poems, The Bridewain, 17.

          At last ’twas gitten wheyte fuor days,
The lavrocks shrill war whuslin’,
Wheyle yen by yen wheyte daiz’d an’ deylt,
O’th rwoard t’wards heame are wrustlin’.

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