Also 6 larine, (larijn), 8 laryn; 7 lari, lar(r)ee, lawree. [Pers. lārī, ? f. Lār name of a territory on the north of the Persian Gulf (Yule).] A kind of Persian and Arabic money formerly in use, consisting of a strip of metal bent over in the form of a hook.
1588. T. Hickock, trans. C. Frederick’s Voy., 35 b. I bought many salted kine there for the prouision of the Ship: for halfe a Larine a peece, which Larine may be twelue shillinges sixe pence.
1616. N. Whithington, in Purchas, Pilgrims (1625), I. 484. We agreed with one of the Ragies or Governours kinred for twenty Laries (twenty shillings) to conduct vs.
1623. Docum. Impeachm. Buckhm. (Camden), 77. Lawrees, beinge peeces of silver … worthe aboute tenne pence.
1634. Sir T. Herbert, Trav., 151. Larrees fashioned like point-aglets, and are worth ten pence.
1681. R. Knox, Hist. Relat., IV. vi. 144. Five and twenty Larees, that is, five dollars.
1704. Collect. Voy. (Churchill), III. 822/2. The most current coin here are the Silver Laryns, each whereof is worth about 10d.
