oorie

• These islands are inhabited by a few individuals Upon leaving Yŕoorie, a venerable Arab chief pretended great regard for the travellers, though he used them deceitfully; they had, however, "enjoyed an innocent kind of revenge, in administering to him a powerful dose of medicine, which though harmless in its effects, had yet been very troublesome to him. —  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 542, April 14, 1832
• They believed them to proceed not from a fish, but from a shell, which is known by the Tamil name of (_oorie cooleeroo cradoo_, or) the "crying shell," a name in which the sound seems to have been adopted as an echo to the sense. —  Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon

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