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.
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Mere, n. [Written also meer and mear.] [AS. gem&aemac;re. &root;269.]
A boundary.
Bacon.
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Mere (?), v. t.
To divide, limit, or bound.
[Obs.]
Which meared her rule with Africa.
Spenser.
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Mere, n.
A mare.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
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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.
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