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   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.
   
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   Mere, n. [Written also meer and mear.] [AS. gemǣre. √269.] A boundary.
   Bacon.
   
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   Mere , 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 , a. [Superl. Merest. The comparative is rarely or never used.] [L. merus.]
   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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   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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