dial.
1. Confusion, excitement.
1876. T. Hardy, Ethelberta (1890), 358. ‘My brain is all in a spin, wi’ being rafted up in such a larry!’ Ibid. (1886), Mayor of Casterbr., xxxvi. ‘The worst larry for me was that pleasant business at Horewood.’
2. (See quot.)
1883. Nature, XXVII. 452. The ‘Larry’ is a dense mass of rolling white land fog, and is confined to the bottom of the Teign valley.
