† versorn.1
Obsolete.
(See quots.)
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the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > [noun] > serving liquor > cup-bearer
birleOE
cupper14..
versora1483
cup-bearer1483
tankard-bearer?1518
copper1528
tankard-yeoman1563
gobleter1623
pincern1623
pocillatora1659
tankard-womana1667
a1483 Liber Niger in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 77 One chief sobyr yeoman versoure, to resceyve all the ale or beere that shall be pourveyede.
a1483 Liber Niger in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 77 Othyr twoe groomes versours in this office to helpe to lodge theyre ale, to helpe drawe it [etc.].
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versorn.2
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > navigational aids > [noun] > compass > needle of
needle1555
fly?a1560
versor1640
magnetic needle1674
1640 G. Watts tr. F. Bacon Of Advancem. Learning v. ii. 229 So the versor of a Mariners needle applies it selfe to the Poles of the world.
2. Mathematics. In quaternions, an operator which changes the direction of a vector without altering its length.
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the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > tensor > [noun] > vector > quaternion > factor or operator in
tensor1846
versora1865
a1865 W. R. Hamilton Elem. Quaternions (1866) ii. i. 133 We shall now say that every Radial Quotient is a Versor. A Versor has thus, in general, a plane, an axis, and an angle.
1886 W. S. Aldis Elem. Solid Geom. (ed. 4) xiv. 235 If the two vectors OA and OB be of equal length the change of one into the other is merely an operation of rotation. In this case the quaternion is called a versor.
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