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to habituate or harden by use. Ure is an archaic word meaning use. (Latin opus, work. French œuvre; old French, eure.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.