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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Flure, Fluir, n. Also: flwre, flur, flwir, fluire, flour(e, flowr(e, flowir, flooure, fleuir, flewer. [ME. flure, floure, flore, OE. flór.] A floor.Also with defining terms as chalmer, hall, hous, kirk, milne, tempill; see these words.(a) 14.. Acts I. 337/2.
Malt makaris … mak it on ane evill flure c1420 Wynt. iii. 60.
Slayne thai fand Thare Kyng apon the flure thare lyand 1443 Reg. Cambuskenneth 127.
[To] sett corballis of tre, of stane, … and pend brasis to be flure to kechingis a1500 Seven S. 1787.
The gold lyis in the flure c1500-c1512 Dunb. liii. 23 (M).
On all the flwre ther was nan frackar, And thair he dansit [etc.] a1540 Freiris Berw. 342.
The freyr … tuk his buik and to the flure he gayis c1568 Lauder Minor P. ii. 58.
The dayntie dammis may nocht sustene The faithfull for to fyle thair flure 1594 Edinb. Test. XXVI. 173 b.
In the malt barne vpoun the flure ten bollis malt 1625 Glasgow B. Rec. I. 347.
The soillis of thair windois being fywe futes abone the flure(b) a1400 Leg. S. xviii. 703.
In-to the floure than done fel I c1475 Wall. vi. 238.
Bar and brais in the flour he gart ly 1499 Halyb. 251.
A M. tyls for his chamer flowr a1578 Pitsc. I. 359/22.
The flour [was] layd ower with fyne silk(c) 1513 Doug. iii. i. 116.
We … of erd a gret fluyr Kest in a hepe abuf his sepultur 1535 Stewart 37686.
The nobill king … Vpoun the fluir thair tha fand liand deid 1562 6th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. 647/2.
Twa tyld claithis to la vpone the fluir 1596 Misc. Spald. C. I. 91.
The haill wort was takin away, and the lwmes fundin dry, and the flwir dry(d) 1540 Lynd. Sat. 826 (B).
Gife he be wiskand wanttonly We sall fling on the fleuir 1699 Thanes of Cawdor 392.
Fyve or six arches … for receaving of cabinets … for books without incroiching upon the flewer