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mure

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Scrabble points
6
Words With Friends
8
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/mjʊə(ɹ)/

Definition of mure

5 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (obsolete)wall
    “Th' incessant care and labour of his mind Hath wrought the mure that should confine it in”
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noun

  1. (obsolete)wall
    “Th' incessant care and labour of his mind Hath wrought the mure that should confine it in”
  2. (obsolete)husks of fruit from which the juice has been squeezed. Perhaps an old spelling of myrrh

adj

  1. (not-comparable, obsolete)mural (as a postmodifier)

verb

  1. (obsolete)to wall in or fortify
  2. (archaic)To enclose or imprison within walls.
    “Therewith he mured up his mouth along, And therein shut up his blasphemous tong”
    “The five kings are mured in a cave.”

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Etymology

Inherited from Middle English muren, from Middle French murer, from Old French murer (“to close by a wall”), from Late Latin mūrō, mūrāre, from Latin mūrus (“wall”). Related to German Mauer (“wall”).

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