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Webster 1913 Edition


Miry

Mir′y

,
Adj.
[From 2d
Mire
.]
Abounding with deep mud; full of mire; muddy;
as, a
miry
road
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Miry

MI'RY

,
Adj.
[from mire.] Abounding with deep mud; full of mire; as a miry road; a miry lane.
1.
Consisting of mire.

Definition 2024


miry

miry

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miry (comparative mirier, superlative miriest)

  1. Relating to a mire; swampy, boggy. [from 14th c.]
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.10:
      Only these marishes and myrie bogs, / In which the fearefull ewftes do build their bowres, / Yeeld me an hostry mongst the croking frogs […].
    • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows:
      summer was long over, and cold and frost and miry ways kept them much indoors […].

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