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
Walter and Virginia came up to the station, and parted with their sister with fondness that was much mure refreshing, Walter reiterating that his was the only plan.
From Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2 by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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
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
Next we drove to San Paolo fuori le mure, of the burning of which Thorwaldsen's Museum possesses a painting by Leopold Robert, but which at that time had been entirely re-built in the antique style.
From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Georg Morris Cohen Brandes
"I wouldn't call it voluntary," he mur mured.
From Time Magazine Archive
We had in our hospital men from the invaded countries without news of wives and families mured up behind that iron veil.
From Another Sheaf by John Galsworthy
P.S.—So you are keeping Jack mured up with you and your magnum opus.
From The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance by Paul Elmer More
First, then, said Gargantua, you must not build a wall about your convent, for all other abbeys are strongly walled and mured about.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 by Peter Anthony Motteux
"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
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