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lory

ˈlɔri
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Interesting fact
In August 1999, Lori Lynn Lomeli set a record by spinning 82 Hula Hoops at the same time for three full revolutions
  1. (n) lory
    small brightly colored Australasian parrots having a brush-tipped tongue for feeding on nectar and soft fruits
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Lory
    (Zoöl) Any one of many species of small parrots of the family Trichoglossidæ, generally having the tongue papillose at the tip, and the mandibles straighter and less toothed than in common parrots. They are found in the East Indies, Australia, New Guinea, and the adjacent islands. They feed mostly on soft fruits and on the honey of flowers.☞ The lory, or louri, of South Africa is the white-crested plantain eater or turacou. See Turacou.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) lory
    One of a large number of parrots constituting the subfamily Loriinæ, or forming a separate family Trichoglossidæ; any brush-tongued parrakeet, or lorikeet. They are mostly of small size and brilliant coloration, inhabiting parts of Asia, the Malay archipelago, and Oceania. Lorius domicella is a characteristic example. All the lories properly so called are trichoglossine or brush-tongued, excepting those of the genus Loriculus (or Coryllis); but the name extends to some similar parrakeets of a different group, as those of the genus Eclectus. See Lorius, Loriculus, Loriinæ, and Trichoglossinæ. See also cut under Domicella.
  2. (n) lory
    In Africa, the white-crested turakoo, Turacus corythaix or T. albo-cristatus, one of the plantain-eaters: probably so called on account of its green color and high crest, which suggest a parrot.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Lory
    lō′ri a common name for the members of a family of Australian parrots.
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Hind. & Malay. lūrī, nūrī,

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Malay.

Usage in the news

He saw the score was close, and while he planned on watching plenty of game film, he said the fact that Loris nearly pulled the upset has zero impact on his team's match-up with the Lions Friday night. myrtlebeachonline.com

Loris schools prepare to focus on medical education. myrtlebeachonline.com

A Loris woman facing charges in connection with the fatal shooting of a man during a Conway store robbery attempt has been released on $5,000 bail after being arrested during a dispute with her neighbor over her dog, according to authorities. myrtlebeachonline.com

Two Columbus County men have turned themselves in to police in connection with a shooting in Loris , SC, earlier this month. aytv3.com

Police investigate Loris officer shot at while on patrol. myrtlebeachonline.com

CSU's Lory Student Center Celebrates 50 Years. k99.com

Lory Student Center, Facebook. k99.com

Colorado State University's Lory Student Center is celebrating its 50-year anniversary. k99.com

Remy Lory signs with Dean. naplesnews.com

Key Lory Wins Fourth Straight Stakes Race. bloodhorse.com

Mack Fehsenfeld's 8-year-old Key Lory overcame an eight-month layoff to earn his fourth consecutive victory in Saturday's $100,000 Red Bank Handicap (gr IIIT) at Monmouth Park. bloodhorse.com

Lori Holt is the owner of Quilter 's Corner in Faulkton. aberdeennews.com

JACKSONVILLE—Services for Lori Quire , 73, will be 2 pm Tuesday at the Hall-Taylor Funeral Home of Shelbyville. state-journal.com

PLEASANTON, Calif — Safeway on Monday said Lori Raya would take over as president of its Vons Division. supermarketnews.com

Shanna Lori Thurston, 37, of Symsonia died last Monday in Paducah. tribunecourier.com

Usage in scientific papers

Charles Ashbacher, Lori Neirynck, The Density of Generalized Smarandache Palindromes, www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/GeneralizedPalindromes.htm G.
Sequences of Numbers Involved in Unsolved Problems

Notice that the class of languages accepted by polynomial time one-way nondeterministic auxiliary pushdown automata is exactly the class of languages that are reducible to context-free languages via one-way log-space reductions (Buntrock and Lory ´s, 1992).
Random Generation and Approximate Counting of Combinatorial Structures

Loris Colombo and Roberto Mainini are gratefully thanked for discussions.
Tracking through equality

Dome C, the site of the French/Italian Concordia station (see Candidi & Lori 2003), has been selected as the most appropriate location on the plateau for the PILOT telescope.
The Science Case for PILOT I: Summary and Overview

Acknowledgments The authors wish to thank Robert Gagnon, Lorie Kloda, Jean Lebel, Benoit Macaluso, Vladimir Pislyakov and Jean-Pierre Robitaille for their useful comments and suggestions.
The impact factor's Matthew effect: a natural experiment in bibliometrics

Usage in literature

But he loved Lory, and her loss was his hardest trial. "Mary Louise Solves a Mystery" by L. Frank Baum

Behind him stood John Sager and Loris Pederson, their faces wary. "The Penal Cluster" by Ivar Jorgensen (AKA Randall Garrett)

Cockatoos, wood pigeons, lories, and black-birds, somewhat larger than those of Europe, abounded in the woods. "Celebrated Travels and Travellers" by Jules Verne

I call it `Lory with the purple cap. "Norman Vallery" by W.H.G. Kingston

It was here that we got our dear old parrot Lory, who is still alive and merry. "Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville" by Mary Somerville

Now, Monsieur Loris, you have been the victim of my romance long enough. "The Bondwoman" by Marah Ellis Ryan

Beyond the beach, with its tumbling waves all aglow from the rising sun, stood the Point of Lory, and their eyes lingered about the cottage. "The Pines of Lory" by John Ames Mitchell

Despite his beauty, the Blue Mountain Lory is not a desirable bird to keep, as he requires great care. "Birds Illustrated by Color Photograph, Volume 1, Number 2, February, 1897" by anonymous

My father wus named James Trentham and mother wus named Lorie. "Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 2" by Work Projects Administration

Count Loris Solovieff was one of 'em. "The Red Symbol" by John Ironside

Usage in poetry
The lories screamed above us as we rode;
The emus ran before us, swift with fear.
A great resistless tide of life we flowed,
The largest mob out of the north that year;
The muffled moving of the many feet
Like sighing waves upon the silence beat.