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Mere (lake), a type of body of water, often broad in relation to its depth Mere (weapon), a Māori war club Mere, an album by Norwegian rock band deLillos; Mère, honorary title given to female French cooks
It is a poetical or dialect word meaning a sheet of standing water, a lake or a pond (OED). The OED 's fourth definition ("A marsh, a fen.") includes wetland such as fen amongst usages of the word which is reflected in the lexicographers' recording of it. In a quotation from the year 598, mere is contrasted against moss (bog) and field against fen.
The word mare comes (through Middle English mare) from the Old English feminine noun mære (which had numerous variant forms, including mare, mere, and mær). [2] Likewise are the forms in Old Norse/Icelandic mara [3] as well as the Old High German mara [5] (glossed in Latin as "incuba " [6]), [7] while the Middle High German forms are mar, mare, [8] [10]
Mere Maury (born Marie-Louise Gélibert in 1863 in Bourg-de-Péage), married Annet Maury in 1885. [29] In 1894 she inherited her parents' cafe and added ravioli to the menu. [ 29 ] She died in 1941.
The word mare, meaning "female horse", took several forms before A.D. 900. [7] In Old English the form was mīere, mere or mȳre, the feminine forms for mearh (horse). The Old German form of the word was Mähre. [8] Similarly, in Irish and Gaelic, the word was marc, in Welsh, march, in Cornish "margh", and in Breton marc'h. [8]
Mereology (/ m ɪər i ˈ ɒ l ə dʒ i /; from Greek μέρος 'part' (root: μερε-, mere-) and the suffix -logy, 'study, discussion, science') is the philosophical study of part-whole relationships, also called parthood relationships.
The mere evidence rule was drawn from the opinion of the United States Supreme Court in the case Boyd v. United States . [ 1 ] In Boyd , the Court ruled that a statute that compelled the production of documents as part of an investigation into the payment of duties was a violation of the Fourth and Fifth Amendments.
Thirlmere 'lake with a gap' from OE thyrel mere; Ullswater uncertain. Possibly named after a Norse chief Ulf or a local Saxon lord named Ulphus; or from the Norse god Ullr; Wast Water 'Wasdale Water'. The name literally means 'water water' from ON vatn and OE wæter; Windermere 'Vinandr's lake' from ON personal name 'Vinandr' and OE 'mere'