Obs. Also 4 lorrei, lorry, 5 lorey, 6 loury, lowrie, laurye, ? laurew, 7 lary, -ie, 8 lowry. [? f. L. laurea, fem. of laureus adj., but used as sb. for the tree itself.] = LAUREL sb.1
a. 1400. Med. MS., in Archæol., XXX. 368. Whanne yis erbe is gaderid yus, In lewys of lorry it must be wounnde.
14[?]. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 577/26. Dampnis, a loreytre. Ibid., 592/4. Laurus, a loreytre.
1422. trans. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv., 245. Al the grene is fadid, outake the Pynes, lorreis, olyues, and few othyr tren.
1508. Dunbar, Ballad Ld. B. Stewart, 67. Thi cristall helme with lawry suld be crownyt.
1533. Bellenden, Livy, II. (1822), 181. He wald not ressave the crown of laurew [v.r. laurer], to have the samin deformit with the public doloure.
1548. Turner, Names of Herbes, 34 (E. D. S.). Daphnoides called of the commune sort Laureola, in englishe Lauriel, Lorel, or Loury.
1549. Compl. Scot., vi. 60. The laurye tree.
1598. Florio, Laureola, the herbe perwinkle. Also the shrub lowrie or lawrell.
1681. Colvil, Whigs Supplic. (1751), 106. Turpentine and larie berries. Ibid., 121. Trembling he stood, in a quandary, And purg’d, as he had eaten lary.
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Lowry or Lowaray, a Shrub, otherwise call’d Spurge-Laurel.
