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 Mire, n.  Deep mud; wet, spongy earth.
 He his rider from the lofty steed
 Would have cast down and trod in dirty mire.   --Spenser.
 Mire crow Zool., the pewit, or laughing gull. [Prov. Eng.]
 Mire drum, the European bittern. [Prov. Eng.]