Oyer is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.
You can make 27 anagrams from letters in oyer (eory).
1375-1425; late Middle English Anglo-French; Old French oïr to hear Latin audīre
The test came in December, 1718, when the court of oyer and terminer was about to begin its session.
Mr. Russel asked, whether the Court of oyer and Terminer should sit, expressing some fear of inconvenience by its fall.
For that reason I refuse to sit in the court of oyer and terminer with those gentlemen.
No courts of oyer and Terminer, at vast expense to the people.
The season, and manner of doing it, is such, that the Court of oyer and Terminer count themselves thereby dismissed.
It was held, in accordance with the Virginian act, by a commission of oyer and terminer, appointed by the governor.
"I should like them to tow me along for another hour or two, after the rain is oyer," he said.
Courts in which crimes are tried are sometimes called courts of oyer and terminer.
The Commission of oyer and Terminer is now busy trying them and others.
It was to be expected, then, that they should insist that none but themselves should sit on the new court of oyer and terminer.