mired English
Verb
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(mire)
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mire English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) , whence Old English mos (English moss).
Noun
( en noun)
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.
Synonyms
* (deep mud) peatland, quag
Hypernyms
* (deep mud) wetland
Hyponyms
* (deep mud) bog, fen
Derived terms
* mire crow
* mire drum
* miry
* in the mire
* quagmire
Verb
( mir)
To weigh down.
To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud.
- to mire a horse or wagon
To soil with mud or foul matter.
* Shakespeare
- Smirched thus and mired with infamy.
Etymology 2
Perhaps related to Middle Dutch miere (Dutch mier). Cognate with Old Norse maurr, Danish myre. All probably from (etyl)
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mured English
Verb
(head)
(mure)
mure English
Noun
( en noun)
(obsolete) wall
- (Shakespeare)
- No, no; he cannot long hold out these pangs.
- Th' incessant care and labour of his mind
- Hath wrought the mure that should confine it in
:— Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II, [IV, 4], line 2870
(obsolete) husks of fruit from which the juice has been squeezed. Perhaps an old spelling of myrrh
References
* Meaning "Husks of fruit": 1949', John Dover Wilson (compiler), ' Life in Shakespeare's England. A Book of Elizabethan Prose , Cambridge at the University Press. 1st ed. 1911, 2nd ed. 1913, 8th reprint. In Glossary and Notes. From Wright's Dialect Dict.
Adjective
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(obsolete) mural (as a postmodifier)
Verb
(obsolete) to wall in or fortify
(obsolete) To enclose or imprison within walls.
- (Spenser)
- The five kings are mured in a cave. — John. x. (Heading).
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