From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mire \Mire\ (m[imac]r), n. [AS. m[imac]re, m[=y]re; akin to D.
mier, Icel. maurr, Dan. myre, Sw. myra; cf. also Ir. moirbh,
Gr. my`rmhx.]
An ant. [Obs.] See Pismire.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mire \Mire\, n. [OE. mire, myre; akin to Icel. m?rr swamp, Sw.
myra marshy ground, and perh. to E. moss.]
Deep mud; wet, spongy earth. --Chaucer.
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He his rider from the lofty steed
Would have cast down and trod in dirty mire. --Spenser.
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Mire crow (Zool.), the pewit, or laughing gull. [Prov.
Eng.]
Mire drum, the European bittern. [Prov. Eng.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mire \Mire\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mired (m[imac]rd); p. pr. &
vb. n. Miring.]
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1. To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix
in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon.
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2. Hence: To stick or entangle; to involve in difficulties;
-- often used in the passive or predicate form; as, we got
mired in bureaucratic red tape and it took years longer
than planned.
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3. To soil with mud or foul matter.
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Smirched thus and mired with infamy. --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mire \Mire\, v. i.
To stick in mire. --Shak.
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