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Mire (mīr), n. [AS. mīre, mȳre; akin to D. mier, Icel. maurr, Dan. myre, Sw. myra; cf. also Ir. moirbh, Gr. μύρμηξ.] An ant. [Obs.] See Pismire.

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Mire, n. [OE. mire, myre; akin to Icel. mrr swamp, Sw. myra marshy ground, and perh. to E. moss.] Deep mud; wet, spongy earth.  Chaucer.

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    He his rider from the lofty steed

    Would have cast down and trod in dirty mire. Spenser.

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    Mire crow (Zool.), the pewit, or laughing gull. [Prov. Eng.] -- Mire drum, the European bittern. [Prov. Eng.]

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Mire, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mired (mīrd); p. pr. & vb. n. Miring.]

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    1. To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, “to mire a horse or wagon”.

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    2. Hence: To stick or entangle; to involve in difficulties; -- often used in the passive or predicate form; as, “we got mired in bureaucratic red tape and it took years longer than planned”.

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    3. To soil with mud or foul matter.

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    Smirched thus and mired with infamy. Shak.

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Mire, v. i. To stick in mire.  Shak.

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