blore meaning (archaic): definition, etymology and quotations

blore

verb

/blɔː(ɹ)/

Etymology From Middle English bloren, variation of bleren, blaren, from Old English *blǣran, *blārian (“to blare, bellow, cry”). More at blare.

Archaic, Dialectal To cry; cry out; weep.

Archaic, Dialectal To bray; bleat like an animal; bellow.

noun

Etymology Perhaps from blore above, a variant of blare, affected by blow. Compare also Gaelic and Irish blor (“a loud noise”).

Obsolete The act of blowing; a roaring wind; a blast.

a most tempestuous blore1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC: