Dure /(?)/

Dure

a.
  1. Hard; harsh; severe; rough; toilsome. [R.]
    The winter is severe, and life is dure and rude.
    — W. H. Russell.

Dure

v. i.
  1. To last; to continue; to endure. [Obs.]
    Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while.