Sare vs Sere - What's the difference?
sare | sere |
(British, archaic) dry, withered
(dialectal, Kent, archaic) tender, rotten
(dialectal, Northern England, archaic) melancholy, bad, severe
(UK, dialectal, Northern England, archaic) much, very much, greatly
Without moisture.
* 1798 , (Samuel Taylor Coleridge), (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner) ,
* 1868 , (Henry Lonsdale), The Worthies of Cumberland , volume concerning Sir J. R. G. Graham, chapter 1,
* 1984 , (Vernor Vinge), (The Peace War) , chapter 37:
An intermediate stage in an ecosystem prior to advancing to the point of being a climax community.
As a verb sare
is .As a noun sere is
.sare
English
Alternative forms
* searAdjective
- Burn ash-wood green, 'tis a fire for a queen;
- Burn ash-wood sare , 'twool make a man sware.
Adverb
sere
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Adjective
(er)part 5:
- The roaring wind! it roar'd far off,
It did not come anear;
But with its sound it shook the sails
That were so thin and sere .
page 1:
- …whilst the recitation of Border Minstrelsy, or a well-sung ballad, served to revive the sere and yellow leaf of age by their refreshing memories of the pleasurable past.
- The grass was sere and golden, the dirt beneath white and gravelly.
