Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The long hair along the top and sides of the neck of certain mammals, such as the horse and the male lion.
- n. A long thick growth of hair on a person's head.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The long hair growing on the neck and neighboring parts of some animals, as the horse, lion, etc., as distinguished from the shorter hair elsewhere. When, as in the horse, it grows on the middle line of the back of the neck, the mane commonly falls on one side, but it may be stiff and erect. In the lion the long and shaggy mane covers the whole neck and part of the fore quarters.
Wiktionary
- n. Longer hair growth on back of neck of an animal, especially a horse or lion
- n. Long or thick hair of a person's head.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The long and heavy hair growing on the upper side of, or about, the neck of some quadrupedal animals, as the horse, the lion, etc. See
Illust. of horse.
WordNet 3.0
- n. long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck
- n. growth of hair covering the scalp of a human being
Etymologies
- From Middle English, from Old English manu ("mane"), from Proto-Germanic *manō (“mane”), from Proto-Indo-European *mony-, *mon- (“neck”). Cognate with Dutch maan ("mane"), German Mähne ("mane"), Swedish man ("horse's mane"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old English manu. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Realizing that every mane is unique, the byu-ti girls opened their very own in-house Byu-ti bar in February offering a myriad of customized diagnostic hair treatments to cater to every hair type.”
“His waist-long, untamed mane is replaced by short, gray hair.”
“His mane is geometricized into a flame-like halo, and the whole composition is surrounded by an Arabic inscription set on a vegetal ground.”
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“His newest horse, Harlow, named for her flaxen mane, is being raised in New Mexico for show.”
“His mane is short and black, and he has a black tuft at the end of his tail, but no dark line runs along his back or crosses his shoulders.”
“Venus had what society columnists and besotted male journalists referred to as a mane of cascading auburn hair and her intellectual pedigree came directly from the Sorbonne, but she was Italian, with an accent that only grew stronger and more mellifluous as the years went by.”
“Knowledge passes from dance teacher into the student through the process of mane, which is often translated as imitation, but learning to dance is more a process of total identification than one of simple copying.”
“Today his mane was a swirling rainbow, dyed in streamers of primary colors.”
“Her mane was a shade darker than her coat, fine and thin, as a thoroughbred's always is whose blood is without taint or cross.”
“His face recalls a man's features, his mane is the wig.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mane’.
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AGRI - horse breeding
place bet, Przewalski's horse, piaffe, genus Claviceps, stadium jumping, draft animal, snaffle bit, noseband, equestrian sport, endurance riding, curb bit, dressage and 678 more...
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Two for the price of one
Words that call to mind two different organisms: e.g., roach the insect and the fish; crow like a rooster. Words such as bullfrog where only part of the word refers to the second organism are exclu...
roach, crow, buck, monkey puzzle, pup, grunt, calf, crab, hens and chicks, loggerhead, tom, man-of-war and 8 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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here, horsey!
horse-related words (sometimes several times removed from actual equines)
horse, donkey, mule, hinny, gelding, stallion, mare, hobby horse, clotheshorse, sawhorse, horseradish, equine and 28 more...
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What's That Pokémon Name?
Words used to create the names of Pokémon, which are usually portmanteaux.
bulb, dinosaur, ivy, venus, char, salamander, squirt, turtle, blast, tortoise, water, caterpillar and 525 more...
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GCI
spinster, maiden, happy-go-lucky, homonym, ill-at-ease, saw red, out of sorts, hot under the collar, taken aback, pen-names, alias, shoelaces and 378 more...
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cindywrites's Words
chiaroscuro, mollycoddle, feckless, evocative, provocative, invocation, beckon, allay, becalm, console, lull, soothe and 479 more...
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Two years
Okay, I admit it. I made a list of words my daughter knew when she was two years old.
bat, baba, a, abalone, about, acorn, adrienne, after, again, airplane, alison, all and 694 more...
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Words I will probably never use
décolleté, pendragon, amerce, viviparous, dragoon, brigand, outlaw, outlawry, lugubrious, boor, contretemps, decrepit and 151 more...
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That's right, another list
muck-a-muck, ipse dixit, solipsism, anticlinal, analogical, amoral, alogical, synclinal, disinclined, iconological, studly, flitch and 179 more...
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Joshee Word List
gash, engross, entail, stoke, ode, vacillate, aspersion, asperity, clan, kith, prospect, nag and 229 more...
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Jacqueline's Words
glittery, horny, amazing, wanderlust, forlorn, lustily, nonchalant, cool, passive, submissive, roundabout, carousel and 558 more...
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Poly-Tick...Tick...Tick... BOOM
words.
awarey, bewarey, hypocratic, disturbilatory, metamutography, rendle, scoptophilia, gesamtkunstwerk, blatant rhetoric ..., fail reserve, drilling for fail, obloquous ignoram... and 24 more...
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Horse Words
horse, pony, bridle, saddle, halter, hoof, equestrian, stirrup, mane, trot, canter, gallop and 21 more...
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The Anonymous Borrower's Words
Words from the English translation of Italo Calvino's Baron in the Trees found underlined, in blue biro, by a previous reader of the Vancouver Public Library's copy of the Calvino collection entitl...
sentinel, mane, shod, rapier, tricorne, elm, carob, mulberry, shrub, waft, wren, gaiters and 49 more...
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M
meringue, mere, mead, marshmallow, may queen, moon, musk, mahogany, mist, murmur, murky, midsummer and 48 more...
Tweets
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missanthropist Ss in, "Hey mane, spare some air"? Apr 20, 2009