Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Sear \Sear\, Sere \Sere\ (s[=e]r), a.
   [OE. seer, AS. se['a]r (assumed) fr. se['a]rian to wither;
   akin to D. zoor dry, LG. soor, OHG. sor[=e]n to to wither,
   Gr. a"y`ein to parch, to dry, Skr. [,c]ush (for sush) to dry,
   to wither, Zend hush to dry. [root]152. Cf. {Austere},
   {Sorrel}, a.] Dry; withered; no longer green; -- applied to
   leaves. --Milton.

         I have lived long enough; my way of life Is fall'n into
         the sear, the yellow leaf.               --Shak.

Sere \Sere\, a.
   Dry; withered. Same as {Sear}.

         But with its sound it shook the sails That were so thin
         and sere.                                --Coleridge.

Sere \Sere\, n. [F. serre.]
   Claw; talon. [Obs.] --Chapman.

Source : WordNet®

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}]