Pure, unalloyed .
So oft as I this history record, / My heart doth melt with meere compassion[…].
Nothing less than; complete, downright .
If every man might have what he would[…]we should have another chaos in an instant, a meer confusion.
Boundary, limit; a boundary-marker; boundary-line.
The Troian Brute did first that Citie found, / And Hygate made the meare thereof by West, / And Ouert gate by North: that is the bound / Toward the land; two riuers bound the rest.
To limit; bound; divide or cause division in.
To set divisions and bounds.
To decide upon the position of a boundary; to position it on a map.
A village and civil parish in northern Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ7381).
A small town and civil parish with a town council in south-west Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST8132).
A sub-municipality in East Flanders, Belgium.
From Middle English mere, mer, from Anglo-Norman meer, from Old French mier, from Latin merus (“pure, unmixed, undiluted”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to sparkle, gleam”). Cognate with Old Engli...
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A body of standing water, such as a lake or a pond (formerly even a body of seawater), especially a broad, shallow one. (Also included in place names such as Windermere.
When making for the Brooke, the Falkoner doth espie On River, Plash, or Mere, where store of Fowle doth lye:
Alternative form of mayor and mair.
A Maori war-club.
As Owen prepared to dismiss the matter, Rule produced something that really caught the great man's eye – a greenstone mere, the warclub of the Maori.
What chance is there of revising this example of case law to include an exception to the generally cited rule when an administrative boundary has been mered in the past to coincide with a private property boundary?