sere

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
sere
    adj 1: (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture;
           "dried-up grass"; "the desert was edged with sere
           vegetation"; "shriveled leaves on the unwatered
           seedlings"; "withered vines" [syn: {dried-up}, {sere},
           {sear}, {shriveled}, {shrivelled}, {withered}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Sear \Sear\, Sere \Sere\ (s[=e]r), a. [OE. seer, AS. se['a]r
   (assumed) fr. se['a]rian to wither; akin to D. zoor dry, LG.
   soor, OHG. sor[=e]n to wither, Gr. a"y`ein to parch, to dry,
   Skr. [,c]ush (for sush) to dry, to wither, Zend hush to dry.
   [root]152. Cf. {Austere}, {Sorrel}, a.]
   Dry; withered; no longer green; -- applied to leaves.
   --Milton.
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         I have lived long enough; my way of life
         Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf. --Shak.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Sere \Sere\, a.
   Dry; withered. Same as {Sear}.
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         But with its sound it shook the sails
         That were so thin and sere.              --Coleridge.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Sere \Sere\, n. [F. serre.]
   Claw; talon. [Obs.] --Chapman.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
52 Moby Thesaurus words for "sere":
      adust, arid, atrophied, baked, bare, bone-dry, brittle, burnt,
      corky, deep-worn, dehydrated, desiccated, dog-eared, dried,
      dried-up, droughty, dry, emaciated, evaporated, exsiccated,
      moistureless, mummified, papery, parched, parchmenty, scorched,
      sear, seared, shelfworn, shopworn, shriveled, shrunken, sun-dried,
      sunbaked, thirsty, threadbare, timeworn, unwatered, wasted,
      waterless, weazened, well-worn, wilted, wind-dried, withered,
      wizened, worn, worn ragged, worn to rags, worn to threads,
      worn-down, wrinkled
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