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mǽre
/mre /*
Morphological Analysis
Wordclass: Noun
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mǽre
a boundary. Add :-- Se ilca forwyrnð þǽræ sǽ þ̵ heó ne mót þone þeorscwold oferstæppan þǽre eorþan (mǽru follows eorðan above the line), Bt. 21 ; S. 49, n. 3. In mǽru Magedan in fines Magedan, Mt. R. 15, 39. [v. N. E. D. mere, mear a boundary : D. D. mear.]
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mære
, mare, mere, an; f. A night-mare, a monster oppressing men during sleep (cf. passage quoted in Cl. and Vig. under mara; 'En er hann hafði litt sofnat, kallaði hann ok sagði at mara trað hann. Menn hans fóru til, ok vildu hjálpa honum; en er þeir tóku uppi til höfuðsins, þá trað hón fótleggina swá at nær brotnuðu. Þá tóku þeir til fótanna, þá kafði hón höfuðit, svá at þar dó hann') :-- Mære faecce, Wrt. Voc. ii. 108, 44: incuba, 111, 46. Mere fecce, 35, 26. Gif mon mare ríde, L. M. 1, 64; Lchdm. ii. 140, 9.
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mǽre
, es; n. A boundary, limit, confine, border :-- Ondlong ðæs mǽres (meres?) heges, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 32, 30: ii. 250, 7(?). In mǽre Judéana in fines Judaea, Mt. Kmbl. Rush. 19, 1. In mǽrum in villas, Mk. Skt. Lind. 6, 56. In mǽrum (mǽro, Rush.) in vicos, Lk. Skt. Lind. 14, 21. [Cf. Icel. mærr a border-land.] v. ge-mǽre mǽr-ác, -apeldre, -bróc, -díc, -heg, -stán, -þorn, -weg.
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mǽre
; adj. Great, excellent, distinguished, illustrious, sublime, splendid, celebrated, famous, widely known (of persons or things) :-- Mære clarus, insignis, nobilis, perspicuus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 131, 66: inclytus, 46, 10, 11. Mere weard percrebuit, Ep. Gl. 18b, 10. Mǽre celeber, Ælfc. Gr. 9, 18; Zup. 44, 10. Mǽrne celebre, Hpt. Gl. 525, 45. Beorht ł mǽre præclara, splendida, 436, 43. Mǽr[re] illustrius, 460, 25.
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mære
pure, in the phrase mǽre peningas = Lat. meri denarii i.e. coins made of pure silver, v. Ducange s.v. merus, quoted by Schmid. The passage in which the word is found occurs in L. Alf. pol. 3; Th. i. 62, 10 :-- Mid V. pundum mǽrra pæninga. With this may be compared the following passage :-- For his lícweorðan feó, ðæt is ii pund mérehwítes seolfres. Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 255, 12.
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mære
a mere, v. mere.
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