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sere
CIDE DICTIONARY
sere, a. [OE. seer, AS. seár (assumed) fr. seárian to wither; akin to D. zoor dry, LG. soor, OHG. sor to wither, Gr. a"y`ein to parch, to dry, Skr. (for sush) to dry, to wither, Zend hush to dry. Austere, Sorrel, a. ].
Dry; withered; no longer green; -- applied to leaves. Milton. [1913 Webster]
"I have lived long enough; my way of life
Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf." [1913 Webster]
Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf." [1913 Webster]
sere, a.
Dry; withered. Same as Sear. [1913 Webster]
"But with its sound it shook the sails
That were so thin and sere." [1913 Webster]
That were so thin and sere." [1913 Webster]
sere, n. [F. serre.].
Claw; talon. Chapman. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
sere, n. a catch of a gunlock holding the hammer at half or full cock.
sere, var. of SEAR adj.
sere, n. Ecol. a sequence of animal or plant communities.
Etymology
L serere join in a SERIES
THESAURUS
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, wrinkledFor further exploring for "sere" in Webster Dictionary Online
