From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mere \Mere\ (m[=e]r), v. t.
To divide, limit, or bound. [Obs.]
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Which meared her rule with Africa. --Spenser.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mere \Mere\, n.
A mare. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mere \Mere\ (m[=e]r), a. [Superl. Merest. The comparative is
rarely or never used.] [L. merus.]
1. 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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2. 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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
-mere \-mere\ [Gr. ? part.]
A combining form meaning part, portion; as, blastomere,
epimere.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mere \Mere\ (m[=e]r), 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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mere \Mere\, n. [Written also meer and mear.] [AS. gem[=ae]re.
[root]269.]
A boundary. --Bacon.
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