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First published 1952 (SND Vol. III). Includes material from the 2005 supplement.
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COOR, COUR, CURE, CUIR, v.² [ku:r]

1. In gen.: to cover, protect (Mry.¹ 1925; Fif.¹⁰ 1937).Sc. 1728 Ramsay Poems II. 238:
His cloven Cloots were hid with Shoon, A Bonnet coor'd his Horns aboon.Sc. 1819 J. Rennie St Patrick I. vi.:
The vera cluds did not gae high eneugh to cuir their taps.Abd. 1996 Sheena Blackhall Wittgenstein's Web 6:
They'd left her laired like auld Attie's tractor, foonered in self-peetie. Fyles,fowk niver coored the stoons o luve unsocht.Ags. 1988 Raymond Vettese The Richt Noise 30:
The tide's aye grindin
and the roots o the sea's ettle gang deep
and silence maun coor us, and we sleep.Per. c.1800 Lady Nairne Songs (ed. Rogers 1905) 231:
The snaw will come an' cour the grund.

2. Of a stallion: to cover.Ayr. 1709 Corshill Baron Court Bk. in Arch. and Hist. Coll. Ayr and Wgt. (1884) IV. 240:
The action persewed . . . against Robert Alexander . . . for half a croun, for cureing a mare with the persewer stoned horse.