sere

kuihtunut Without moisture.
1798, (w), (w), https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Rime_of_the_Ancyent_Marinere_%281798%29V. part 5:

The roaring wind! it roar'd far off,It did not come anear;But with its sound it shook the sailsThat were so thin and sere.

…whilst the recitation of Border Minstrelsy, or a well-sung ballad, served to revive the sere and yellow leaf of age by their refreshing memories of the pleasurable past.

The grass was sere and golden, the dirt beneath white and gravelly.

Therefore I have seen good shooters which would have for every bow a sere case, made of woollen cloth, and then you may put three or four of them, so cased, into a leather case if you will.

Perhaps it is the scant, delicate detail revealing finer lines, which thus turns corners of Tuscany into an imaginary Hellas. Or perhaps the mere sunny austerity of these rocky sere places, the twitter of birds telling of renewed life, suggesting what, to us, seem the homes of the world's happy youth.-->

Thou wert wellnee moidered' wi' me, I know, but it thou'd telled me, Mary, I mun do better or else we mun goo our sere-ways,' belike I should a done better. I'm nobbut a mon, Mary, a lundy day-tale mon. Thou might a glen me that much ...

Behold now sir, and thou shalt see Sere kingdoms and sere country; All this will I give to thee For evermore, And thou fall and honour me As I said ere.

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