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Mere (mēr), 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. gemǣre. √269.] A boundary. Bacon.
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Mere (mēr), v. t. To divide, limit, or bound. [Obs.]
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Which meared her rule with Africa. Spenser.
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Mere, n. A mare. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Mere (mēr), a. [Superl. Merest. The comparative is rarely or never used.] [L. merus.]
1. Unmixed; pure; entire; absolute; unqualified.
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Then entered they the mere, main sea. Chapman.
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The sorrows of this world would be mere and unmixed. Jer. Taylor.
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2. Only this, and nothing else; such, and no more; simple; bare; as, “a mere boy; a mere form.”
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From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor of any nation. Atterbury.
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