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Pronunciation : Mere
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [Written also mar.]
Definition : Defn: A pool or lake. Drayton. Tennyson.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Mere
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [Written also meer and mear.]
Definition : Defn: A boundary. Bacon.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Mere
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To divide, limit, or bound. [Obs.] Which meared her rule with Africa. Spenser.
t.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Mere
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : Defn: A mare. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Mere
Part of Speech : a.
Etymology : [L. merus.]
Definition : 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.
[Superl. Merest. The comparative is rarely or never used.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
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