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English Dictionary: Mere	by the DICT Development Group
7 results for Mere
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mere adj being nothing more than specified; "a mere child" apart from anything else; without additions or modifications; "only the bare facts"; "shocked by the mere idea"; "the simple passage of time was enough"; "the simple truth" Synonym(s): bare(a), mere(a), simple(a) n a small pond of standing water
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mere \Mere\, n. [Written also meer and mear.] [AS. gem[aemac]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 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.