LekhoriLekhoriDeep mud; moist, spongy earth.
His laden feet sand and stuck in mire; he was bedaubed with the blue-gray clay from head to foot; but he had escaped the deadly river!
A bog or fen; (in wetland science, specifically) a peatland which is actively forming peat, such as an active bog or fen.
Glagolev […] measured CH₄ emission from a mire in West Siberia using a static chamber method. Similar methods had been developed and tested by Nakano et al. (2006), Fig. 1.
An ant.
"Having been seriously interrupted by small brown ants or mires working in my cutting bench, digging holes down the side of my cuttings, thereby arresting the process of rooting. […]"
To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud.
to mire a horse or wagon
A surname.
From Middle English mire, a borrowing from Old Norse mýrr, from Proto-Germanic *miuzijō, whence also Swedish myr, Norwegian myr, Icelandic mýri, Dutch *mier (in placenames, for example Mierlo). Relate...
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To sink into mud.
To weigh down.