Mured vs Mure - What's the difference?
mured | mure |
(mure)
(obsolete) wall
:— 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
(obsolete) mural (as a postmodifier)
(obsolete) to wall in or fortify
(obsolete) To enclose or imprison within walls.
(obsolete) wall
:— 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
(obsolete) mural (as a postmodifier)
(obsolete) to wall in or fortify
(obsolete) To enclose or imprison within walls.
As verbs the difference between mured and mure
is that mured is (mure) while mure is to die.mured
English
Verb
(head)mure
English
Noun
(en noun)- (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
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
(-)Verb
- (Spenser)
- The five kings are mured in a cave. — John. x. (Heading).
Anagrams
* ----mure
English
Noun
(en noun)- (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
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
(-)Verb
- (Spenser)
- The five kings are mured in a cave. — John. x. (Heading).
