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mire |
5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Mire \Mire\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mired}; p. pr & vb n. {Miring}.] 1. To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as to mire a horse or wagon. 2. To soil with mud or foul matter. Smirched thus and mired with infamy. --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Mire \Mire\, v. i. To stick in mire. --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Mire \Mire\, n. [AS. m[=i]re, m?re; akin to D. mier, Icel. maurr, Dan. myre, Sw myra; cf also Ir moirbh Gr ?.] An ant. [Obs.] See {Pismire}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Mire \Mire\, n. [OE. mire, myre; akin to Icel. m?rr swamp, Sw myra marshy ground, and perh. to E. moss.] Deep mud; wet, spongy earth. --Chaucer. He his rider from the lofty steed Would have cast down and trod in dirty mire. --Spenser. {Mire crow} (Zo["o]l.), the pewit, or laughing gull. [Prov. Eng.] {Mire drum}, the European bittern. [Prov. Eng.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: mire n : a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot [syn: {quagmire}, {morass}] v 1: entrap; "Our people should not be mired in the past" [syn: {entangle}] 2: cause to get stuck as if in a mire; "The mud mired our cart" [syn: {bog down}] 3: be unable to move further; "The car bogged down in the sand" [syn: {get stuck}, {bog down}] 4: soil with mud, muck, or mire; "The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden" [syn: {muck}, {mud}, {muck up}]
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