colure

colure (plural colures)

1. (astronomy) Either of two great circles (meridians) that intersect at the poles and either the equinoxes or solstices.

• equinoctial colure
• solstitial colure

• Lucero, ulcero-

colure

1. Alternative form of cooloor
   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, line 8:

     Wee hert ee zough o'ye colure o' pace na name o' Mulgrave.

     We heard the distant sound of the wings of the dove of peace, in the word Mulgrave.

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 116