Definition of Lourings

1. louring [n] - See also: louring

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lourings

louping ill
loupit
loups
lour
loure
loured
lourenswalsite
loures
loureth
louri
lourie
lourier
louries
louriest
louring
lourings (current term)
louris
lours
loury
lous
louse-borne typhus
louse around
louse flies
louse fly
louse up
louseborne
loused
louselike
louses

Literary usage of Lourings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. English Hunger and Industrial Disorders: A Study of Social Conflict During by Walter James Shelton (1922)
"... Dear as excess without the core that cloys, And charm Life's lourings fair. Exalt and crown the hour That girdles us, and fill it full with glee, ..."

2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1820)
"... nor risks reply, Beneath the lourings of a master's eye ; But nature will return, although you strive. With fork to ward her off, with force to drive. ..."

3. The History of English Poetry: From the Close of the Eleventh Century to the by Thomas Warton (1840)
"... meane way by no lourings all my dayes. And from far of hathe taken flyght, Yea, and will, if 1 be made mery among. light ; mery long ? ..."

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