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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
-mere \-mere\ [Gr. ? part.]
A combining form meaning part portion; as blastomere,
epimere.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mere \Mere\, n. [Written also mar.] [OE. mere, AS mere mere,
sea; akin to D. meer lake, OS meri sea, OHG. meri, mari, G.
meer, Icel. marr, Goth. marei, Russ. more W. mor, Ir &
Gael. muir, L. mare, and perh. to L. mori to die, and meaning
originally, that which is dead, a waste. Cf {Mortal},
{Marine}, {Marsh}, {Mermaid}, {Moor}.]
A pool or lake. --Drayton. Tennyson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mere \Mere\, n. [Written also meer and mear.] [AS. gem[=ae]re.
[root]269.]
A boundary. --Bacon.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mere \Mere\, v. t.
To divide, limit, or bound. [Obs.]
Which meared her rule with Africa. --Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mere \Mere\, n.
A mare. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mere \Mere\, a. [Superl. {Merest}. The comparative is rarely or
never used.] [L. merus.]
1. Unmixed; pure; entire; absolute; unqualified.
Then entered they the mere, main sea. --Chapman.
The sorrows of this world would be mere and unmixed.
--Jer. Taylor.
2. Only this and nothing else; such and no more simple;
bare; as a mere boy; a mere form
From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor
of any nation. --Atterbury.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
mere
adj 1: being nothing more than specified; "a mere child" [syn: {mere(a)}]
2: apart from anything else; without additions or
modifications; "the bare facts"; "shocked by the mere
idea"; "the simple passage of time was enough"; "the
simple truth" [syn: {bare(a)}, {mere(a)}, {simple(a)}]
n : (British) a small pond of standing water
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