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mere |
7 definitions found 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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