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Meaning of URE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Ure\, n. [OE. ure, OF. oevre, ovre, ouvre, work, F.
    [oe]uvre, L. opera. See {Opera}, {Operate}, and cf. {Inure},
    {Manure}.]
    Use; practice; exercise. [Obs.] --Fuller.
          Let us be sure of this, to put the best in ure That
          lies in us.                              --Chapman.
    
  2. \Ure\, v. t.
    To use; to exercise; to inure; to accustom by practice.
    [Obs.]
          The French soldiers . . . from their youth have been
          practiced and ured in feats of arms.     --Sir T. More.
    
 
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