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To inclose in walls; to wall; to immure; to shut up. Spenser. The five kings are mured in a cave. John. x. (Heading).

One who had charge of the wall of a town, or its repairs.

A genus of marine gastropods, having rough, and frequently spinose, shells, which are often highly colored inside; the rock shells. They abound in tropical seas.

A complex nitrogenous substance obtained from murexide, alloxantin, and other ureids, as a white, or yellowish, crystalline which turns red on exposure to the air; -- called also uramil, dialuramide, and formerly purpuric acid.

A crystalline nitrogenous substance having a splendid dichroism, being green by reflected light and garnet-red by transmitted light. It was formerly used in dyeing calico, and was obtained in a large quantities from guano. Formerly called also ammonium purpurate.

rogenous compound obtained as a scarlet crystalline substance, and regarded as related to murexide.

Armor. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Bromide. [Obs.]

To encompass with a wall. Shak.

An outer wall. [Obs.] Chambers.

all raised behind another, to supply its place when breached or destroyed. [R.] Cf. Contramure. Knolles.

; composed and decorous in bearing; of modest look; staid; grave. Sober, steadfast, and demure. Milton. Nan was very much delighted in her demure way, and that delight showed itself in her face and in her clear bright eyes. W. Black.

In a demure manner; soberly; gravely; -- now, commonly, with a mere show of gravity or modesty. They . . . looked as demurely as they could; for 't was a hanging matter to laugh unseasonably. Dryden.

The state of being demure; gravity; the show of gravity or modesty.

To immure. [Obs.]

alls; hence, to shut up; to imprison; to incarcerate. Those tender babes Whom envy hath immured within your walls. Shak. This huge convex of fire, Outrageous to devour, immures us round. Milton.

The act iif immuring, or the state of being immured; imprsonment.

To wall in; to inclose. [Obs.] Ford.

Spirits or ghosts of the departed; specters. The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint. Milton.

Like or pertaining to the genus Muræna, or family Murænidæ.