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Wright's OE grammar
§55; §215; §386;
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  • Hé hám cymeð . . . nefne him holm gestýreð, mere hafað mundum,

      Gn. Ex. 107.
add: a natural pool
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  • Æt Finchámstede án mere blód weóll,

      Chr. 1098; P. 234, 22.

  • Hí þá hálgan geléddon tó ánum brádum mere. . . se mere wæs mid forste oferþeaht,

      Hml. S. 11, 141.

  • Hí cwǽdon ꝥ wé fundon sumne swíþe micelne mere in þǽm wǽre fersc wæter and swéte genóg

    ingens nos stagnum dulcissime aque inuenturos,

      Nar. 11, 26.

  • On merum in stagna, Ps. L. 106, 35: 113, 8. [

    The word occurs in many compounds,

    v. Midd. Flur, s. v.]
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  • Beforan ðǽm temple stód ǽren ceác . . . ðætte ðá menn ðe intó ðǽm temple gán woldon meahten hira hónda ðweán on ðǽm mere

    ante fores templi ad abluendas ingredientium manus mare aeneum, id est, luterem boves portant.

      Past. 105, 4.
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v. sealt-mere, úter-mere, wíþig-mere.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “mere.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/55285.

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