Lire vs Mire - What's the difference?
lire | mire |
Flesh, brawn, or muscle; the fleshy part of a person or animal in contradistinction to the bone and skin.
The fleshy part of a roast capon, etc. as distinguished from a limb or joint.
Deep mud; moist, spongy earth.
* When Caliban was lazy and neglected his work, Ariel (who was invisible to all eyes but Prospero’s) would come slyly and pinch him, and sometimes tumble him down in the mire .'' (, ''Tales from Shakespeare , Hatier, coll. « Les Classiques pour tous » n° 223, p. 51)
An undesirable situation, a predicament.
To weigh down.
To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud.
To soil with mud or foul matter.
* Shakespeare
As nouns the difference between lire and mire
is that lire is flesh, brawn, or muscle; the fleshy part of a person or animal in contradistinction to the bone and skin while mire is deep mud; moist, spongy earth.As a verb mire is
to weigh down.lire
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lire, lyre, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) lire, lyre, from (etyl) . More at (l).Etymology 3
From (etyl) . Cognate with (etyl) lira.Etymology 4
From (etyl) lire.Noun
(head)Anagrams
* * * ----mire
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) , whence Old English mos (English moss).Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (deep mud) peatland, quagHypernyms
* (deep mud) wetlandHyponyms
* (deep mud) bog, fenDerived terms
* mire crow * mire drum * miry * in the mire * quagmireVerb
(mir)- to mire a horse or wagon
- Smirched thus and mired with infamy.