sere

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Their garlands sere, their magic mantles rent;

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  1. adjective Withered; dry: sere vegetation at the edge of the desert.
  2. noun The entire sequence of ecological communities successively occupying an area from the initial stage to the climax.

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  • Heyl, wurchepful sere, and good day A ceteceyn of this cytë ye seme to be Of herborwe[43] ffor spowse and me I yow pray ffor trewly this woman is fful wer And fayn at reste, sere, wold she be We wolde ffulffylle the byddynge of oure emperoure ffor to pay tribute, as right is oure And to kepe oureselfe ffrom dolowre We are come to this cyt Cives. —  Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan
  • All sere are the prairies and brown in the glimmer and haze of the Autumn; From the far northern marshes flock down by thousands, the geese and the mallards. —  The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems
  • 2. Their garlands sere, their magic mantles rent. —  Adonais
  • In March or April the spring runs are a bright emerald while the surrounding fields are yet brown and sere, and in fall they are yet green when the first snow covers them. —  The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton
  • The leaves are sere, the woods have lost —  Ramayana. English
 

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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English sēar.
  2. From series.

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  1. Also seer; from Middle English sere, ser, from Icelandic sēr, for oneself, separately, properly dative reflexive pron., to oneself; cf. Icelandic ace. sik (= German sich = Latin se, etc.), oneself.
  2. Middle English sere, ser, modern English dial. seer; apparently a variant of sure, Middle English seur, suir: see sure.
  3. from Old French (and F.) serre, French dial. sarre = Provencal Italian serra, a talon, from Latin sera, a bar to close a door, lock: see sear, seraglio.
 

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