Mere (?), a.
[Superl. Merest. The comparative is rarely or never used.]
[L. merus.] 1. Unmixed; pure; entire; absolute; unqualified.
Then entered they the mere, main sea.
Chapman. The sorrows of this world would be mere and unmixed.
Jer. Taylor. 2. Only this, and nothing else; such, and no more; simple; bare; as, a mere
boy; a mere form.
From mere
success nothing can be concluded in favor of any nation.
Atterbury.
Mere , n. A mare. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Mere (?), v. t. To divide, limit, or bound. [Obs.]
Which meared her rule with
Africa.
Spenser.
Mere , n. [Written also meer and mear.]
[AS. gem&aemacr;re. √269.]
A boundary. Bacon.
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.
-mere (?). [Gr. &?; part.]
A combining form meaning part, portion; as, blastomere, epimere.
Hear it pronounced