Definition of "ourie" [ourie]

• Chill; having the sensation of cold; drooping; shivering. (adjective)
• Bleak; melancholy. (adjective)

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• "Familiar with all the seasons he represents the phases of a northern winter with a frequency characteristic of his clime and of his fortunes; her tempests became anthems in his verse, and the sounding woods "raise his thoughts to Him that walketh on the wings of the wind"; full of pity for the shelterless poor, the "ourie cattle," the"
• ""Her bark's waur than her bite," said Mrs. Craig, as she returned to her husband, who felt already some of the ourie symptoms of a henpecked destiny."
• "L-ourie, and degcribei a conien Willi Ixjrd Norlli. in a letter to F lin, in 1781, 466-403."