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mere noun1.
[Old English mere corresp. to Old Saxon meri sea (Dutch meer sea, pool), Old High German mari, meri (German Meer), Old Norse marr sea, Gothic mari-, from Germanic from Indo-European base also of Old Church Slavonic morje (Russian more), Latin mare.]
The sea. Long obsolete exc. in comb. (cf. MER-). OE.
b. An arm of the sea. L16-L17.
A sheet of standing water; a lake, a pond. Now chiefly dial. & literary. OE.
A marsh, a fen. obsolete exc. dial. E17.
Comb. (cf. MER-): mereswine a dolphin, a porpoise.