MERE

n. v. a.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

A pool or lake. Drayton. Tennyson.

2.
n.

A boundary. Bacon.

3.
v.

To divide, limit, or bound. [Obs.] Which meared her rule with Africa. Spenser.

4.
n.

A mare. [Obs.] Chaucer.

5.
a.

Unmixed; pure; entire; absolute; unqualified. Then entered they the mere, main sea. Chapman. The sorrows of this world would be mere and unmixed. Jer. Taylor.

6.
a.

Only this, and nothing else; such, and no more; simple; bare; as, a mere boy; a mere form. From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor of any nation. Atterbury.

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