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▪ I. † mure, n. Obs.
[a. F. mur:—L. mūrum (mūrus).]
1. A wall. Also transf. and fig.
1471Caxton Recuyell (Sommer) I. 271 He..fortefied the Cyte of Troye with mures & towrs. a1552Leland Itin. (1768) II. 79 Rogerus le Poure..cast a great Dike without it, and made a false Mure without the Dike. 1577Settle Frobisher's 2nd Voy. in Hakluyt (1589) 624 At our first comming the streights seemed to be shut vp with a long mure of yce. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iv. iv. 119. 1651 Jer. Taylor Clerus Dom. 3 There was never any people but had their Priests..and kept holy things within a mure.
2. quasi-adj. in crown-mure = mural crown; also Comb. in mure-crowned adj. rare—1.
1682Wheler Journ. Greece iii. 238 Another I saw..of silver, with a Mure-crowned Head. Ibid. 264 A Figure, with a Crown-mure, with these Letters about it.
▪ II. mure, a. Obs. exc. dial. (East Angl.: see E.D.D.)
Also mewre, meure, moyre, mur, meuer.
[a. OF. meür, meüre, mod.F. mûr, mûre ripe, mature.]
a. Grave, modest, demure.
b. Mature (in phrase mure deliberation).
c1440Jacob's Well xli. 254 Þe secunde fote in brede [of frenschip] is benignite, þat is, to suffere, & to be mure, & noȝt veniable, ne holde wratthe in herte. 1442T. Beckington Corr. (Rolls) II. 215 By commune and mure deliberacion t'acertaine your said Mageste of such inconvenients as [etc.]. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 7678 Moyre and sobyr in worde and dede. c1500Melusine xxiv. 160 He purueyed of remede by good & meure deliberacion of his counseill.
c. Comb.: mure-hearted a. (dial.), tender-hearted (see E.D.D.).
▪ III. mure, v.|mjʊə(r)|
Forms: 6 mowre, 5– mure. pa. pple. 4 mwryt, 5 mewred, 5–6 muryd(e, 6 murid, muryed.
[a. F. murer:—L. mūrāre, f. mūr-us mure n.]
1. trans. To wall in, to surround with a wall or walls; to fortify. = immure v. 1. Also with up, in.
c1440Mandeville (1839) xxvii. 277 He had let muren alle the mountayne aboute with a stronge walle and a fair. 1494Fabyan Chron. v. cxl. 126 Howsis, Castellis, and townes strongely muryd. 1503Hawes Examp. Vir. xii. 215 But sapyence with her wordes me mured With walles of comfort makynge me mery. 1653Urquhart Rabelais i. lii, All other Abbies are strongly walled and mured about. 1780Von Troil Iceland 189 This bath, which is large enough to contain 50 persons at one time, is mured in with a wall of basalt.
2. To block up, or build up (a door, gate, etc.), by means of bricks and mortar, stones, etc. Also with up.
1375Barbour Bruce iv. 164 Thai or day, throu mekill pane, Had mwryt vp the ȝet agane. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. cccxcviii. 689 Let vs enclose ourselfe in this towne, and mure vp all our gates. 1673Bp. S. Parker Reproof Reh. Transp. 519 Mure up your school doors. 1807J. Barlow Columb. vii. 632 There lodge their tons of powder and retire, Mure the dread passage, wave the fatal fire.
transf. and fig.1581Mulcaster Positions (1887) 69 Such fleshy parts..do..as it were mure up, and stop the passage. 1596Spenser F.Q. vi. xii. 34 He tooke a muzzel strong Of surest yron..: Therewith he mured up his mouth along.
b. To wall up the doors of; to stop the means of access to. With up.
1550Sir R. Bowes in Hodgson Hist. Northumbld. (1828) iii. II. 200 The said utter courde were best, as me think, to be mowred upp. 1672Marvell Reh. Transp. i. 124 Why not adjourn the Term, mure up Westminster-hall [etc.].
3. To shut up or enclose within walls; to imprison; to confine as in a prison or fortress. = immure v. 2. Also with up.
In some examples the vb. app. refers to the alleged walling up in cells of anchorites (who were fed through a hole in the wall) and of persons condemned to perish by famine.
a1450Knt. de La Tour (1906) 73 He kylde hym, and dyde his wyf to be mewred and putte in pryson perpetuel. 1530Palsgr. 642/1 It is a payne to be mured up in a stone wall lyke an anker. 1611Bible Josh. x. heading, The fiue Kings are mured in a caue. 1670tr. Bernier's Mogol Emp. (1676) I. 179 The Women were mured up, where they dyed of hunger and misery. 1799in Spirit Pub. Jrnls. III. 104 Some youth, one mur'd in squalid city jails. 1847Marryat Childr. N. Forest xxvi, [They] are not a little tired of being mured up in the cottage. 1888Amélie Rives Quick or Dead vii. (1889) 82 They could never voluntarily have mured themselves in labyrinths of brick and stone during these late autumn days.
b. refl. To shut oneself up.
1608Bp. Hall Epist. i. v, An English-man, so madly devout, that he had wilfully mur'd up himselfe as an Anachoret. 1893Black Handsome Humes I. i. 16 She said it was a pity he mured himself up in his college at Oxford.
▪ IV. mure
obs. f. mare n.1, mire, moor n.1, myrrh. |