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Definition of 'mure'English
Noun
( en-noun)
(obsolete) wall
- (Shakespeare)
- No, no; he cannot long hold out these pangs.
- Th' incessant care and labour of his mind
- Hath wrought the mure that should confine it in
:— Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II, [IV, 4], line 2870
(obsolete) husks of fruit from which the juice has been squeezed. Perhaps an old spelling of myrrh
References
* Meaning "Husks of fruit": 1949', John Dover Wilson (compiler), ' Life in Shakespeare's England. A Book of Elizabethan Prose , Cambridge at the University Press. 1st ed. 1911, 2nd ed. 1913, 8th reprint. In Glossary and Notes. From Wright's Dialect Dict.
Adjective
(-)
(obsolete) mural (as a postmodifier)
Verb
(obsolete) to wall in or fortify
(obsolete) To enclose or imprison within walls.
- (Spenser)
- The five kings are mured in a cave. — John. x. (Heading).
Anagrams
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