Sear, Sere a.  Dry; withered; no longer green; -- applied to leaves.
  I have lived long enough; my way of life
  Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf.   --Shak.
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  Sere a. Dry; withered. Same as Sear.
  But with its sound it shook the sails
  That were so thin and sere.   --Coleridge.
  Sere, n.  Claw; talon. [Obs.]
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  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]