mire

  • 11Mire — may refer to: Bog Poor fen Fen See also All pages beginning with Mire All pages with titles containing Mire Mir (disambiguation) This disambigua …

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  • 12mire — Mire. s. f. v. On appelle ainsi à un canon l endroit qui sert à faire que le Canonnier le puisse pointer où il veut. La mire d un canon. On dit, qu Un Canonnier prend sa mire, pour dire, qu Il pointe le canon & prend sa visée pour faire que le… …

    Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • 13Mire — (m[imac]r), n. [AS. m[=i]re, m[=y]re; akin to D. mier, Icel. maurr, Dan. myre, Sw. myra; cf. also Ir. moirbh, Gr. my rmhx.] An ant. [Obs.] See {Pismire}. [1913 Webster] …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 14mire — [n] muck, morass bog, dirt, fen, glop*, goo*, gunk*, marsh, moss, mud, ooze*, quagmire, quicksand, slime*, swamp; concepts 509,674 mire [v] delay, catch up in bog down, cling, decelerate, detain, dirty, embroil, enmesh, ensnare, entangle, entrap …

    New thesaurus

  • 15Mire — (s. ⇨ Mär). *1. Dat sent Fisker Mi re1. – Röttscher, 54. 1) Märchen, für Ausreden. *2. Fisker Mire mâkn. – Röttscher, 55. Zwecklos arbeiten …

    Deutsches Sprichwörter-Lexikon

  • 16mire — [mīr] n. [ME < ON myrr, akin to mosi,MOSS] 1. an area of wet, soggy ground; bog 2. deep mud; wet, soggy earth; slush vt. mired, miring 1. to cause to get stuck in or as in mire 2. to soil or splatter with mud or …

    English World dictionary

  • 17Mire — Mire, Noel le M., Kupferstecher in Rouen; stach vorzüglich Blätter zu Voltaire s, Boccaccio s, Rousseau s u. Lafontaine s Werken; st. 1801 …

    Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • 18Mire — (Meridianzeichen), s. Kollimator und Meridiankreis, S. 634 …

    Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • 19Mire — Mire, s. Meridianmarke …

    Lexikon der gesamten Technik

  • 20mire — index pollute Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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