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English Dictionary: sere by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sere
adj
  1. (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture; "dried-up grass"; "the desert was edged with sere vegetation"; "shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings"; "withered vines"
    Synonym(s): dried-up, sere, sear, shriveled, shrivelled, withered
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sear \Sear\, Sere \Sere\ (s[emac]r), a.
      [OE. seer, AS. se[a0]r (assumed) fr. se[a0]rian to wither;
      akin to D. zoor dry, LG. soor, OHG. sor[emac]n to to wither,
      Gr. a"y`ein to parch, to dry, Skr. [cced]ush (for sush) to
      dry, to wither, Zend hush to dry. [root]152. Cf. {Austere},
      {Sorrel}, a.] Dry; withered; no longer green; -- applied to
      leaves. --Milton.
  
               I have lived long enough; my way of life Is fall'n into
               the sear, the yellow leaf.                     --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sere \Sere\, a.
      Dry; withered. Same as {Sear}.
  
               But with its sound it shook the sails That were so thin
               and sere.                                                --Coleridge.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sere \Sere\, n. [F. serre.]
      Claw; talon. [Obs.] --Chapman.
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