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‖ murra Roman Antiq.|ˈmʌrə|
Also murrha, myrrha.
[L. murra = late Gr. µορρία or µόρρια. Cf. murrhine.]
A substance of which precious vases and other vessels were made.
1598R. Grenewey Tacitus, Ann. vi. xxviii. (1622) 131 Hauing taken vp a certaine waight of the stone Murrha. 1606Holland Sueton. 68 On cup of the pretious stone Myrrha [margin Or Murrha]. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. xxxi. III. 206 note, The fragile vessels of chrystal and murra, which last is almost proved..to mean the procelain of China and Japan. |