Definition of "ure" in English

noun

1. (obsolete, only in collocations in ure, out of ure) Use, practise, exercise.

   • ...it maketh him practise simulation in other things, lest his hand should be out of ure

verb

1. (obsolete, ambitransitive) To use; to exercise; to inure; to accustom by practice.

   • 1551, Ralph Robinson (translator), Utopia (1516) by Thomas More, edited by William Dallam Armes, New York: Macmillan, 1912, Book 1, p. 37, […] the French soldiers […] from their youth have been practised and ured in feats of arms […]

noun

1. Synonym of aurochs.

contraction

1. (informal, Internet, text messaging) Abbreviation of you're (you are).