5 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] I have lived long enough; my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf. --Shak. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Sere \Sere\, a. Dry; withered. Same as {Sear}. [1913 Webster] But with its sound it shook the sails That were so thin and sere. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Sere \Sere\, n. [F. serre.] Claw; talon. [Obs.] --Chapman. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: sere adj : (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}, {sear}, {shriveled}, {shrivelled}, {withered}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 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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