[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

mere \mere\, n. written also meer and mear. as. gem=aere.
   root269.
   a boundary. --bacon.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

mere \mere\ m=er, v. t.
   to divide, limit, or bound. obs.
   1913 webster

         which meared her rule with africa.       --spenser.
   1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

mere \mere\, n.
   a mare. obs. --chaucer.
   1913 webster

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

mere \mere\ m=er, a. superl. merest. the comparative is
   rarely or never used. l. merus.
   1. unmixed; pure; entire; absolute; unqualified.
      1913 webster

            then entered they the mere, main sea. --chapman.
      1913 webster

            the sorrows of this world would be mere and unmixed.
                                                  --jer. taylor.
      1913 webster

   2. only this, and nothing else; such, and no more; simple;
      bare; as, a mere boy; a mere form.
      1913 webster

            from mere success nothing can be concluded in favor
            of any nation.                        --atterbury.
      1913 webster
see also:
merest 

[5] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

-mere \-mere\ gr. ? part.
   a combining form meaning part, portion; as, blastomere,
   epimere.
   1913 webster

[6] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

mere \mere\ m=er, n. written also mar. oe. mere, as. mere
   mere, sea; akin to d. meer lake, os. meri sea, ohg. meri,
   mari, g. meer, icel. marr, goth. marei, russ. more, w. mor,
   ir.  gael. muir, l. mare, and perh. to l. mori to die, and
   meaning originally, that which is dead, a waste. cf.
   mortal, marine, marsh, mermaid, moor.
   a pool or lake. --drayton. --tennyson.
   1913 webster
see also:
mortal marine marsh mermaid moor 

[7] : WordNet (r) 2.0

mere
     adj 1: being nothing more than specified; "a mere child" syn: merea
     2: apart from anything else; without additions or
        modifications; "only the bare facts"; "shocked by the mere
        idea"; "the simple passage of time was enough"; "the
        simple truth" syn: barea, merea, simplea
     n : a small pond of standing water
see also:
merea barea simplea 

[8] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

39 moby thesaurus words for "mere":
   absolute, austere, bare, basic, chaste, elementary, essential,
   fundamental, homely, homespun, homogeneous, indivisible,
   irreducible, just, monolithic, of a piece, only, plain, primal,
   primary, pure, pure and simple, scant, severe, sheer, simon-pure,
   simple, single, spare, stark, unadorned, uncluttered,
   undifferenced, undifferentiated, undiluted, unenhanced, uniform,
   unmitigated, unmixed

[9] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

mere. this is the french word for mother. it is frequently used as, in 
ventre sa mere, which signifies; a child unborn, or in the womb. 

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