Mere

n.	1.	A pool or lake.
	1.	A boundary.
v. t.	1.	To divide, limit, or bound. Which meared her rule with Africa. - Spenser.
n.	1.	A mare.
a.	1.	Unmixed; pure; entire; absolute; unqualified. Then entered they the mere, main sea. - Chapman. The sorrows of this world would be mere and unmixed. - Jer. Taylor.
	2.	Only this, and nothing else; such, and no more; simple; bare; as, a mere boy; a mere form. From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor of any nation. - Atterbury.

Noun	1.	mere - a small pond of standing water
Adj.	1.	mere - being nothing more than specified; "a mere child"
	2.	mere - apart from anything else; without additions or modifications; "only the bare facts"; "shocked by the mere idea"; "the simple passage of time was enough"; "the simple truth" Synonyms: simple, bare

MERE. This is the French word for mother. It is frequently used as, in ventre sa mere, which signifies; a child unborn, or in the womb.

absolute, austere, bare, basic, chaste, elementary, essential, fundamental, homely, homespun, homogeneous, indivisible, irreducible, just, monolithic, of a piece, plain, primal, primary, pure, pure and simple, severe, sheer, simon-pure, single, spare, stark, unadorned, uncluttered, undifferenced, undifferentiated, undiluted, unenhanced, uniform, unmitigated, unmixed

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