Mire /(mīr)/

Mire

n.
  1. An ant. [Obs.]

Mire

n.
  1. Deep mud; wet, spongy earth.
    He his rider from the lofty steed Would have cast down and trod in dirty mire.

Phrases & Compounds
Mire crow
the pewit, or laughing gull.
Mire drum
the European bittern.

Mire

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Mired; p. pr. & vb. n. Miring

  1. To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon.
  2. To stick or entangle; to involve in difficulties; -- often used in the passive or predicate form; as, we got mired in bureaucratic red tape and it took years longer than planned.
  3. To soil with mud or foul matter.
    Smirched thus and mired with infamy.

Mire

v. i.
  1. To stick in mire.