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
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
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
"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
Perhaps it was because of this that Brother Sebastian had been mured up in the capital two thirds of his life.
From Stories by American Authors, Volume 6 by Various
And now, Humphrey, Chaloner and Grenville are not a little tired of being mured up in the cottage, and I am as anxious as they are to be off.
From The Children of the New Forest by Frederick Marryat
But Marguerite was of no mind to be mured up in an Irish country house, with perhaps an occasional trip to Dublin.
From Superwomen by Albert Payson Terhune
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