mure
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of mure
1400–50; late Middle English muren (v.) < Middle French murer < Late Latin mūrāre verbal derivative of Latin mūrus wall
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From Time Magazine Archive
It is no mure wonderful that I should live again than that I do live.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Robert Green Ingersoll
They are brought into a cavern, the entrance to which Roger is ordered to mure up.
From The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas by Charles Annesley
And so with drawing the hole people, he came to a dyck in a mure edge, upoun the sowth-west syd of Mauchlyne, upoun the which he ascended.
From The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) by David Laing
And he had let mure all the mountain about with a strong wall and a fair.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
"I wouldn't call it voluntary," he mur mured.
From Time Magazine Archive
"First, then," said Gargantua, "you must not build a wall about your convent, for all other abbeys are strongly walled and mured about."
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I by Henry Cabot Lodge
Perhaps it was because of this that Brother Sebastian had been mured up in the capital two-thirds of his life.
From Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2 by William Patten
All that wealth could bring— Refinement, luxury and ease—was theirs; But I was proud and felt my poverty, And gladly mured myself among the books To master 'the lawless science of the law.'
From The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems by Hanford Lennox Gordon
“What a dislike the men must have to the press,” said Cross to me, “when they submit to be mured up here in prison.”
From Percival Keene by Frederick Marryat
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