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mere
1. noun /mɪə,mɪɚ,ˈmɛɹi/
a) a pool; a small lake or pond; marsh

Lok got to his feet and wandered along by the marshes towards the mere where Fa had disappeared.

b) boundary, limit; a boundary-marker; boundary-line

The Troian Brute did first that Citie found, / And Hygate made the meare thereof by West, / And Ouert gate by North: that is the bound / Toward the land; two riuers bound the rest.

2. adjective /mɪə,mɪɚ,ˈmɛɹi/
just, only; no more than

Meere ignorance, and wholy relying on others, was verily more profitable and wiser, than is this verball, and vaine knowledge [...].


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