Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sere"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sear \Sear\, Sere \Sere\ (s[=e]r), a.
[OE. seer, AS. se['a]r (assumed) fr. se['a]rian to wither;
akin to D. zoor dry, LG. soor, OHG. sor[=e]n to to wither,
Gr. a"y`ein to parch, to dry, Skr. [,c]ush (for sush) to dry,
to wither, Zend hush to dry. [root]152. Cf. {Austere},
{Sorrel}, a.] Dry; withered; no longer green; -- applied to
leaves. --Milton.
I have lived long enough; my way of life Is fall'n into
the sear, the yellow leaf. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sere \Sere\, a.
Dry; withered. Same as {Sear}.
But with its sound it shook the sails That were so thin
and sere. --Coleridge.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sere \Sere\, n. [F. serre.]
Claw; talon. [Obs.] --Chapman.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sere
adj : (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture;
"dried-up grass"; "the desert was edged with sere
vegetation"; "shriveled leaves on the unwatered
seedlings"; "withered vines" [syn: {dried-up}, {sear},
{shriveled}, {shrivelled}, {withered}]
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