Hypertext Webster Gateway: "mire"
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) 1.7 (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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