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Definition of Meres
1. mere [n] - See also: mere
Lexicographical Neighbors of Meres
Literary usage of Meres
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of English Poetry by William John Courthope (1903)
"Nor does meres' list appear to aim at being exhaustive. At any rate it makes no
mention of the three parts of King Henry VI,, nor of The Taming of the Shrew ..."
2. English Literature During the Lifetime of Shakespeare by Felix Emmanuel Schelling (1910)
"In 1598 Francis meres included in his Palladis Tamia, "A Comparative Discourse
of our ... meres further names a comedy under title of Love's Labor's Won. ..."
3. Lincolnshire Pedigrees by A R (Arthur Roland) Maddison, Arthur Staunton Larken (1903)
"I mas Bassett, Knt. John meres of Kirton,=p. . . . dan. and heir of . ...
John meres of=p. . . . dau. of Tho- Margaret, mar. Tho- Jane, mar. ..."
4. English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature by Henry Morley, William Hall Griffin (1893)
"Because the shorter sentences in Bodenham were easier to translate than the longer
sentences in meres, which had, perhaps, been partly designed as an ..."
5. The Age of Shakespeare (1579-1631) by Thomas Seccombe (1903)
"... meres, a graduate of Pembroke College, Cambridge, who took orders and kept a
school at Wing in Rutland. This worthy schoolmaster was a mere compiler, ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Tithes by William Eagle (1830)
"Principle of the Headlands and butts, and meres or baulks, which are strips of
headlands' °f grass-land dividing the arable lands in common fields, ..."
7. Ruling Cases by Irving Browne, Leonard Augustus Jones, James Tower Keen, John Melville Gould (1897)
"Upon Lord MANSFIELD'S report, the facts appearing upon the trial were, that meres
and H. had the occupation of certain closes ..."
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