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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.

Purely; unmixedly; absolutely. Ulysses was to force forth his access, Though merely naked. Chapman.

Tissue composed of spheroidal cells.

An officer who ascertains meres or boundaries. [Eng.]

The land within the boundaries of a farm; a farmstead or farm. [Archaic.] Longfellow.

A stone designating a limit or boundary; a landmark. Bacon.

Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic.

A person subjected to mesmeric influence; one who is mesmerized. [R.]

One of successive or homodynamous parts in animals and plants; one of a series of similar parts that follow one another in a vertebrate or articulate animal, as in an earthworm; a segment; a somite. See Illust. of Loeven's larva.

A small European shrub (Daphne Mezereum), whose acrid bark is used in medicine.

One of the smaller measures of electrical currents; the millionth part of one ampère.

One of the smaller cells, or blastomeres, resulting from the complete segmentation of a telolecithal ovum.

White-livered; cowardly; timorous.

The thousandth part of one ampère.

A liter, or cubic decimeter.

enitential acts, being the 50th psalm in the Latin version. It commences with the word miserere.

Thick, like mother; viscid. They oint their naked limbs with mothered oil. Dryden.

A miser; a niggard. [Obs.]

One guilty of murder; a person who, in possession of his reason, unlawfully kills a human being with premeditated malice.

A woman who commits murder.