lowrie

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English

Noun

lowrie (plural lowries)

(Scotland) fox
- 1571, The Morall fabillis of Esope compylit be Maister Robert Henrisoun‎:
  Cum furth, lowrie, lurkand vnder thy hude.
- 1761, Allan Ramsay, The Fox and Rat‎:
  The monarch pleas'd with Lowry, wha durſt gloom? A warrant's order'd for a good round ſum,
- 1789, Sillar, David, Poems, by David Sillar. 1789‎:
  Has greedy lowrie been amang thy ſheep / Or does ſome thrawart laſs diſturb thy ſleep?

References

James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Lowrie”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VI, Part 1 (L), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 478, column 3.

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