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Webster 1913 Edition

Mere

Mere

(mēr)
,
Noun.
[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

,
Noun.
[Written also
meer
and
mear
.]
[AS.
gemǣre
. √269.]
A boundary.
Bacon.

Mere

(mēr)
,
Verb.
T.
To divide, limit, or bound.
[Obs.]
Which
meared
her rule with Africa.
Spenser.

Mere

,
Noun.
A mare.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

Mere

(mēr)
,
Adj.
[
Sup
erl.
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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Mere

MERE

,
Adj.
[L. merus.] This or that only; distinct from any thing else.
From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor of a nation.
What if the head,the eye or ear repin'd
To serve mere engines to the ruling mind?
1.
Absolute; entire.

MERE

,
Noun.
[L. mare. See Moor.] A pool or lake.

MERE

,
Noun.
[Gr. to divide.] A boundary; used chiefly in the compound, mere-stone.

MERE

,
Verb.
T.
To divide, limit or bound.

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