Sear \Sear\, Sere \Sere\ (s[=e]r), a. [OE. seer, AS. se['a]r
(assumed) fr. se['a]rian to wither; akin to D. zoor dry, LG.
soor, OHG. sor[=e]n to wither, Gr. a"y`ein to parch, to dry,
Skr. [,c]ush (for sush) to dry, to wither, Zend hush to dry.
[root]152. Cf. Austere, Sorrel, a.]
Dry; withered; no longer green; -- applied to leaves.
--Milton.
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I have lived long enough; my way of life
Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf. --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Sere \Sere\, a.
Dry; withered. Same as Sear.
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But with its sound it shook the sails
That were so thin and sere. --Coleridge.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Sere \Sere\, n. [F. serre.]
Claw; talon. [Obs.] --Chapman.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sere
adj : (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture;
"dried-up grass"; "the desert was edged with sere
vegetation"; "shriveled leaves on the unwatered
seedlings"; "withered vines" [syn: dried-up, sear,
shriveled, shrivelled, withered]
WordNet (r) 2.0
52 Moby Thesaurus words for "sere":
adust, arid, atrophied, baked, bare, bone-dry, brittle, burnt,
corky, deep-worn, dehydrated, desiccated, dog-eared, dried,
dried-up, droughty, dry, emaciated, evaporated, exsiccated,
moistureless, mummified, papery, parched, parchmenty, scorched,
sear, seared, shelfworn, shopworn, shriveled, shrunken, sun-dried,
sunbaked, thirsty, threadbare, timeworn, unwatered, wasted,
waterless, weazened, well-worn, wilted, wind-dried, withered,
wizened, worn, worn ragged, worn to rags, worn to threads,
worn-down, wrinkled
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
dried-up, sear, shriveled, shrivelled, withered
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