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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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63 words match “SERE”

SERE a. 2 definitions

Dry; withered. Same as Sear. But with its sound it shook the sails That were so thin and sere. Coleridge.

A mist, or very fine rain, which sometimes falls from a clear sky a few moments after sunset. Tyndall.

SERENADE v. 4 definitions

To entertain with a serenade.

One who serenades.

SERENATA; SERENATE n.

A piece of vocal music, especially one on an amoreus subject; a serenade. Or serenate, which the starved lover sings To his pround fair. Milton.

SERENE a. 5 definitions

Bright; clear; unabscured; as, a serene sky. The moon serene in glory mounts the sky. Pope. Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear. Gray.

SERENELY adv. 2 definitions

In a serene manner; clearly. Now setting Phoebus shone serenely bright. Pope.

Serenity. Feltham.

Serenity. [Obs.]

SERENITY n. 2 definitions

The quality or state of being serene; clearness and calmness; quietness; stillness; peace. A general peace and serenity newly succeeded a general trouble. Sir W. Temple.

A Linnæan order of aquatic birds swimming by means of webbed feet, as the duck, or of lobed feet, as the grebe. In this order were included the geese, ducks, auks, divers, gulls, petrels, etc.

Having all the reefs taken in; -- said of a sail.

MISERERE n. 4 definitions

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

An order, or suborder, of birds, including more that half of all the known species. It embraces all singing birds (Oscines), together with many other small perching birds.

[OE. seer, AS. seár (assumed) fr. seárian to wither; akin to D. zoor dry, LG. soor, OHG. soren to to wither, Gr. sush) to dry, to wither, Zend hush to dry. sq. root152. Cf. Austere, Sorrel, a.] Dry; withered; no longer green; -- applied to leaves. Milton. I have lived long enough; my way of life Is fall'n into the sear…

The time when there no sap in the trees; the winter season. [Written also wood-seer.] [Obs.] Tusser.

Gracious; mild; benign. A serene and affable countenance. Tatler.

the optic nerve, without any perceptible external change in the eye; -- called also gutta serena, the "drop serene" of Milton.

A genus of water fowls, of the order Anseres, including certain species of fresh-water ducks.

Pertaining to the Anseres.