urus
Collocations
3ADJ.
captive
VERB + URUS
maintaining
PREP.
in, with
Definitions
noun
The aurochs.
Howbeit, that country bringeth forth certain kinds of goodly great wild bœufes: to wit, the Biſontes, mained with a collar, like Lions: and the Vri, a mightie ſtrong beaſt, and a ſwift: which the ignorant people call Buffles, whereas indeed the Buffle is bred in Affrica, and carieth ſome reſemblance of a calfe rather, or a ſtag.
He also brought forth two large drinking cups, made out of the horn of the urus, and hooped with silver.
noun
Alternative spelling of urs.
noun
Alternative form of Urs (“death anniversary of a Sufi saint”).
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Synonyms
noun — large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox
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3Howbeit, that country bringeth forth certain kinds of goodly great wild bœufes: to wit, the Biſontes, mained with a collar, like Lions: and the Vri, a mightie ſtrong beaſt, and a ſwift: which the igno
WiktionaryHe also brought forth two large drinking cups, made out of the horn of the urus, and hooped with silver.
WiktionaryEduard Hahn has postulated that the motive for capturing and maintaining the urus in the captive state was to have available a supply, for sacrificial purposes, of the animal sacred to the lunar mothe
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