The Collaborative International Dictionary
Silure \Si*lure"\, n. [L. silurus a sort of river fish, Gr. ???: cf. F. silure.] (Zo["o]l.) A fish of the genus Silurus, as the sheatfish; a siluroid.
Wiktionary
n. A fish of the genus ''Silurus'', such as the sheatfish; a siluroid.
Usage examples of "silure".
Gleddyvrudd, King of the Demetae and Silures in Dyfed, had grown weedy with the years, his muscles like rawhide cords beneath a skin of bleached vellum.
I gathered from a glance that the Demetae and Silures still possessed much wealth and, hence, much power.
Then, gather the warbands of the Demetae and Silures and ride with me to pledge them to Aurelius.
More, if I had misjudged the temper of the Demetae and Silures I had once ruled, how could I expect to fare any better with the kings of the north?
But the Demetae and Silures, among the oldest tribes of Britons, were also the most independent.
The lords of the Demetae and Silures were long established in the land and powerful.
Pendaran Gleddyvrudd, King of the Demetae and Silures in Dyfed, had grown weedy with the years, his muscles like rawhide cords beneath a skin of bleached vellum.
Then the shouting line reformed and his ax wielding Picts and armored Silures with heavy weapons met them.
Cunobeline, from the Thames to the western sea, fell to pieces at a touch and it was only among the wild Silures that Caractacus was able to make any great resistance.
All that you urge against the Trinobantes and the tribes of Kent the Silures might urge with equal force against us.
So strong and populous was the city that the Trinobantes, during the years that had elapsed since the Romans took possession of it, remained passive under the yoke of their oppressors, and watched, without attempting to take part in them, the rising of the Iceni and Brigantes, the long and desperate war of the Silures and Ordovices under Caractacus, and the reduction of the Belgae and Dumnonii from Hampshire to Cornwall by Vespasian.
I have never believed, as some do, that Britain is as yet completely conquered, and that when we have finished with the Silures in the west our work will be completely done.
There were assembled the women of the Silures and the Druids from all parts of Britain, with many fugitives who had fled for shelter to the island.
Romans, the Silures, his people, had begun to enter the larger world of cities and trade.
And the Silures themselves organized their customs in such a way as to avoid the conquest and exploitation to which the other tribes had been subjected.