Definition of "lorel" []

• A good-for-nothing fellow; a vagabond; losel. (noun)

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• "Elk are in much better order in the point near the praries than they are in the woody country arround us or up the Netul. in the praries they feed on grass and rushes, considerable quantities of which are yet green and succule [n] t. in the woody country their food is huckle berry bushes, fern, and an evergreen shrub which resembles the lorel in some measure; the"
• "The general organisation was not defective; nor was every monk a "lorel, a loller, and a ` spille-tyme. '"