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    Sear, Sere (sēr),  a. [OE. seer, AS. seár (assumed) fr. seárian to wither; akin to D. zoor dry, LG. soor, OHG. sorēn to wither, Gr. αὕειν to parch, to dry, Skr. çush (for sush) to dry, to wither, Zend hush to dry.  √152.  Cf. Austere, Sorrel, a.] Dry; withered; no longer green; -- applied to leaves. Milton.
   
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   I have lived long enough; my way of life
   
   Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf. Shak.
   
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   Sere (?), a. Dry; withered. Same as Sear.
   
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   But with its sound it shook the sails
   
   That were so thin and sere. Coleridge.
   
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   Sere, n. [F. serre.] Claw; talon. [Obs.]  Chapman.
   
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