meare

Noun (1)

mere (plural meres)

1. Boundary, limit; a boundary-marker; boundary-line.
   • The Troian Brute did first that Citie found, / And Hygate made the meare thereof by West, / And Ouert gate by North: that is the bound / Toward the land; two riuers bound the rest.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Noun (2)

mere (plural meres)

1. (obsolete) Synonym of sea, a large body of salt water.

   Synonyms:

   sea

2. (obsolete) Synonym of inlet, an arm of the sea.

   Synonyms:

   inlet

3. (UK, dialectal, literary) A body of standing water, inclusive of lakes, ponds, and pools, especially any broad and shallow one.
   • When making for the Brooke, the Falkoner doth espie
     On River, Plash, or Mere, where store of Fowle doth lye:1622, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 20 p. 16
4. (UK, dialectal) Synonym of marsh.
   • Cully Barnaby: Right to roam, Dad. She has got a point.
     DCI Tom Barnaby: But it's a mere. Who'd want to walk across a mere?1999 September 12, Anthony Horowitz et al., “Dead Man's Eleven”, in Midsomer Murders

   Synonyms:

   marsh

Noun (3)

mere (plural meres)

1. A Maori war-club.
   • As Owen prepared to dismiss the matter, Rule produced something that really caught the great man's eye – a greenstone mere, the warclub of the Maori.2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 41

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Noun (1)

mare (plural mares)

1. An adult female horse.
   • But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon...1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC

   Antonyms:

   stallion, stud, gelding

2. (Ireland, UK, derogatory, slang) A foolish woman.
   • The silly mare phoned your mother, talking about applying for a mortgage, and we don't want that, do we?2007, Hester Browne, Little Lady, Big Apple

Noun (2)

mare (plural mares)

1. (historical, obsolete) A type of evil spirit formerly thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; also, the feeling of suffocation felt during sleep, attributed to such a spirit.
2. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial) A nightmare; a frustrating or terrible experience.
   • I'm having a complete mare today.

Noun (3)

mare (plural maria)

1. A large, dark plain, which may have the appearance of a sea, such as those on the Moon.
2. On Saturn's moon Titan, any of several lakes which are large expanses of what is thought to be liquid hydrocarbons.
   • Kraken Mare (a lake of liquid hydrocarbons on Titan which is slightly larger than the Caspian Sea)

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