n. A pool; a small lake. or pond.n. A boundary; boundary-line.n. A balk or furrow serving as a boundary- or dividing-line in a common field; also, a boundary-stone; a merestone.n. A private carriage-road.n. A measure of 29 or 31 yards in the Peak of Derbyshire in England.To limit; bound; divide or cause division in.To set divisions and bounds.Pure; sheer; unmixed.Absolute; unqualified; utter; whole; in the fullest sense.Sheer; simple; nothing but (the thing mentioned); only: as, it is mere folly to do so; this is the merest trash.Absolutely; wholly.Famous.n. A Middle English form of mare.n. In the reticulum or supporting skeleton of the extinct silicious sponges of the family Dictyospongidæ, one of the divisions or meshes produced by the intersection of the primary vertical and horizontal spicular bundles. It is subdivided by the spicules of. subordinate rank into lesser areas or quadrangles—dimeres, tetrameres, hexameres.n. A Maori war-club; a casse-tête, or war-ax, from 12 to 18 inches in length, made of any suitable hard material, as stone, hard wood, or whalebone. Outside of New Zealand the word is only known as the name of a little trinket of greenstone made in imitation of the New Zealand weapon in miniature, mounted in gold or silver, and used as a brooch, locket, ear-ring, or other article of jewelry.