Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An adult female horse or the adult female of other equine species.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Oppressed sleep; incubus, formerly regarded as an evil spirit of the night that oppresses persons during sleep: now used only in the compound nightmare.
- noun The female of the horse, or of other species of the genus Equus.
- noun A few ears of grain left standing and tied together, at which the harvesters throw their sickles till the knot is cut.
- An obsolete form of
more . - noun A sea; specifically, in astronomy, a name for certain dark regions on the surface of the moon which were supposed by Galileo and other early observers to be seas or oceans, and are now regarded as plains; also a name for certain dark regions on the planet Mars.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The female of the horse and other equine quadrupeds.
- noun (Med.) Sighing, suffocative panting, intercepted utterance, with a sense of pressure across the chest, occurring during sleep; the incubus; -- obsolete, except in the compound
nightmare .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An adult
female horse . - noun UK, pejorative, slang A
foolish woman . - noun planetology A dark, large circular
plain ; a “sea ”. - noun planetology On
Saturn 's moonTitan , a largeexpanse of what is thought to beliquid hydrocarbons . - noun A type of evil
spirit thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; also the feeling of suffocation felt during sleep; anightmare . - noun UK, colloquial (Shortening of
nightmare ) Anightmare ; a frustrating or terrible experience.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun female equine animal
- noun a dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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TO SOLOMON 9AGEBARO, E3 in fupport of his opinion, that a woman was a man, though a man was not a woman; by the fame rule, and for the fame reafon, as a mare is a horfe, though a horfe is not a mare*
The British Magazine and Review, Or, Universal Miscellany 1783
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The easy option: Pronouncing it phonetically, like the word mare.
5-Star Baby Name Advisor Bruce Lansky 2008
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The easy option: Pronouncing it phonetically, like the word mare.
5-Star Baby Name Advisor Bruce Lansky 2008
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You're as different from other women as that kind of a mare is from scrub work-horse mares.
CHAPTER I 2010
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This mare is due to foal 4/25/08 so I am looking forward to that date.
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I look at it this way "this are leaders who are looking for other leaders to work with" rather than "I will be Hamas's worst nightmare" why do you want to be their worst night mare, is that how you resolve issues?
McCain: 'It's very clear who Hamas wants' in the White House 2008
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A young mare is sent galloping down the length of the manga as the mounted charros stand ready with their lariats.
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A young mare is sent galloping down the length of the manga as the mounted charros stand ready with their lariats.
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Our vast country "a mari usque ad mare" is not too large since we need all the ten Provinces to go from sea to sea.
Our Partnership 1960
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Then I stepped down in front of Mollie -- as I called the mare -- into the trail, and started to lead her.
freericky commented on the word mare
a dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon; the dark spots we see
June 18, 2008
vendingmachine commented on the word mare
"Aloha is a tiny impact crater on the Moon, that lies to the northwest of the Montes Agricola ridge, on the Oceanus Procellarum. It is located near the faint terminus of a ray that crosses the mare from the southeast, originating at the crater Glushko."
December 7, 2016