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