mere

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Being nothing more than what is specified: a mere child; a mere 50 cents an hour.
2. adj. Considered apart from anything else: shocked by the mere idea.
3. adj. Small; slight: could detect only the merest whisper.
4. adj. Obsolete Pure; unadulterated.
5. n. A small lake, pond, or marsh: "Sometimes on lonely mountain meres/I find a magic bark” ( Tennyson).
6. n. Archaic A boundary.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A pool; a small lake. or pond.
2. n. A boundary; boundary-line.
3. n. A balk or furrow serving as a boundary- or dividing-line in a common field; also, a boundary-stone; a merestone.
4. n. A private carriage-road.
5. n. A measure of 29 or 31 yards in the Peak of Derbyshire in England. It is defined by Blount as “29 yards in the low Peak of Derbyshire and 31 in the high.” Mining claims were measured by meres, the discoverer of a lode being allowed to claim two mcres.
6. To limit; bound; divide or cause division in.
7. To set divisions and bounds.
8. Pure; sheer; unmixed.
9. Absolute; unqualified; utter; whole; in the fullest sense.
10. Sheer; simple; nothing but (the thing mentioned); only: as, it is mere folly to do so; this is the merest trash.
11. Absolutely; wholly.
12. Famous.
13. n. A Middle English form of mare.
14. n. In the reticulum or supporting skeleton of the extinct silicious sponges of the family Dictyospongidæ, one of the divisions or meshes produced by the intersection of the primary vertical and horizontal spicular bundles. It is subdivided by the spicules of. subordinate rank into lesser areas or quadrangles—dimeres, tetrameres, hexameres.
15. n. A Maori war-club; a casse-tête, or war-ax, from 12 to 18 inches in length, made of any suitable hard material, as stone, hard wood, or whalebone. Outside of New Zealand the word is only known as the name of a little trinket of greenstone made in imitation of the New Zealand weapon in miniature, mounted in gold or silver, and used as a brooch, locket, ear-ring, or other article of jewelry.

Wiktionary

1. n. obsolete the sea
2. n. a pool; a small lake or pond; marsh
3. adj. obsolete famous.
4. n. a Maori war-club
5. n. boundary, limit; a boundary-marker; boundary-line
6. v. transitive, obsolete To limit; bound; divide or cause division in.
7. v. intransitive, obsolete To set divisions and bounds.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A pool or lake.
2. n. A boundary.
3. v. obsolete To divide, limit, or bound.
4. n. obsolete A mare.
5. adj. Unmixed; pure; entire; absolute; unqualified.
6. adj. Only this, and nothing else; such, and no more; simple; bare.

WordNet 3.0

1. adj. being nothing more than specified
2. n. a small pond of standing water
3. adj. apart from anything else; without additions or modifications