Definition of mire

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Mire (v. t.) To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon..

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Addle :: Addle (n.) Liquid filth; mire.
Antiquitarian :: Antiquitarian (n.) An admirer of antiquity. [Used by Milton in a disparaging sense..
Inclinnation :: Inclinnation (n.) A person or thing loved or admired.
Dag :: Dag (v. t.) To daggle or bemire.
Stall :: Stall (v. i.) To be set, as in mire or snow; to stick fast..
Mired :: Mired (imp. & p. p.) of Mir.
Welter :: Welter (n.) That in which any person or thing welters, or wallows; filth; mire; slough..
Mire :: Mire (v. i.) To stick in mire.
Daggle-tailed :: Daggle-tailed (a.) Having the lower ends of garments defiled by trailing in mire or filth; draggle-tailed.
Flounder :: Flounder (v. i.) To fling the limbs and body, as in making efforts to move; to struggle, as a horse in the mire, or as a fish on land; to roll, toss, and tumble; to flounce..
Bemire :: Bemire (v. t.) To drag through, encumber with, or fix in, the mire; to soil by passing through mud or dirt..
Wallow :: Wallow (n.) To roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire..
Dilettante :: Dilettante (v. t.) An admirer or lover of the fine arts; popularly, an amateur; especially, one who follows an art or a branch of knowledge, desultorily, or for amusement only..
Devoted :: Devoted (a.) Consecrated to a purpose; strongly attached; zealous; devout; as, a devoted admirer..
Hag :: Hag (n.) A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut.
Modernist :: Modernist (n.) One who admires the moderns, or their ways and fashions..
Apposition :: Apposition (n.) The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first..
Draggle-tail :: Draggle-tail (n.) A slattern who suffers her gown to trail in the mire; a drabble-tail.
Idolater :: Idolater (n.) An adorer; a great admirer.
Pismire :: Pismire (n.) An ant, or emmet..
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