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▪ I. miry, a.|ˈmaɪərɪ|
Forms: 4–6 myry(e, 6–7 mierie, miery, myery, myrie, 6 myerry, 7 merie, mirie, 8–9 mirey, 5– miry.
[f. mire n.1 + -y1.]
1. Of the nature of mire or marshy ground, swampy.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. lxxxvii. (1495) 836 The Sowe is frende to fenne and to myry places. 1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 433 The feelde where the hooste laye, was so wete and myry, that men and bestys were to greuoslye noyed. 1596Spenser F.Q. v. x. 23 Onely these marishes and myrie bogs, In which the fearfull ewftes do build their bowres. 1622S. Ward Woe to Drunkards (1627) 38 Though the pit bee deepe, merie and narrow. 1763Mills Pract. Husb. IV. 332 The ground..had better be dry, than mirey wet. 1833Hood Epping Hunt lxxvii, Some fell in miry bogs.
fig.1602F. Herring Anat. 5 Ouer head and eares in the myrie puddle of grosse Ignorance.
2. Abounding in mire, muddy.
c1440Alphabet of Tales 335 Þe strete þat he rade in was passand myrye. 1574tr. Marlorat's Apocalips 40 As the cleere and vnmuddie water that glydeth with a quiet streame, differeth from troubled and myrie froth. 1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 135 Women footing it in the mierie streets. 1714Gay Trivia i. 239 Deep thro' a miry Lane she pick'd her Way, Above her Ankle rose the chalky Clay. 1833H. Martineau Berkeley the Banker i. i, When the days get damp and dark, and the roads miry.
fig.a1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. i. 14 Several steps and ascents out of this miry cave of mortality. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 356 Nor that the miry road of labour, trouble, suffering, and imperfection, should be made the necessary passage thereto.
3. Covered or bespattered with mud or mire.
1496Bk. St. Albans, Fishing 3 [The hunter] his clothes torne wete shode all myry. 1530Palsgr. 318/2 Myerry or dirty, berayed with dyrte, boueux. 1714Gay Trivia i. 25 When late their miry sides stage-coaches show. 1864R. A. Arnold Cotton Fam. 54 Hodge comes in all miry from his work.
4. fig. Dirty, defiled; despicable.
1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 614/1 Tindall..layeth hys myrye handes vpon the knowen catholike churche of Christ. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage i. ii. 10 Beyond that myrie heap of earthie waters. 1877E. Johnson Antiq. Mat. 69 A name under which men drove a miry business.
† Comb.1589Nashe Almond for Parrat 5 Thinke you this myrie mouthed mate, a partaker of heauenly inspiration, that thus aboundes in his vncharitable railings.
5. ‘Dirty’ in colour. rare.
1850Zoologist VIII. 2644 Those [sc. eggs] of the plover were somewhat discoloured, and were beginning to get what may be called miry.
▪ II. miry
obs. form of merry a. |