Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A female horse or the female of other equine species.
- n. Any of the large dark areas on the moon or on Mars or other planets.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The female of the horse, or of other species of the genus Equus.
- n. A few ears of grain left standing and tied together, at which the harvesters throw their sickles till the knot is cut.
- n. Oppressed sleep; incubus, formerly regarded as an evil spirit of the night that oppresses persons during sleep: now used only in the compound nightmare.
- An obsolete form of more.
- n. 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.
Wiktionary
- n. planetology A dark, large circular plain; a “sea”.
- n. planetology On Saturn's moon Titan, a large expanse of what is thought to be liquid hydrocarbons.
- n. An adult female horse.
- n. UK, pejorative, slang A foolish woman.
- n. A type of evil spirit thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; also the feeling of suffocation felt during sleep; a nightmare.
- n. UK, colloquial (Shortening of nightmare) A nightmare; a frustrating or terrible experience.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The female of the horse and other equine quadrupeds.
- n. (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 .
WordNet 3.0
- n. female equine animal
- n. a dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon
Etymologies
- From Middle English mare, from Old English mare ("nightmare, monster"), from Proto-Germanic *marōn (“nightmare, incubus”) (compare Dutch (dial.) mare, German (dial.) Mahr, Old Norse mara ( > Danish mare, Swedish mara 'incubus, nightmare')), from Proto-Indo-European *mor- (“feminine evil spirit”). Akin to Old Irish Morrígain 'elf queen', Albanian tmerr ("horror"), Polish zmora 'nightmare', Czech mura 'nightmare, moth'. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, alteration of Old English mȳre (influenced by forms of mearh, horse); see marko- in Indo-European roots.Latin, sea; see mori- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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*”
Internet Archive: The British Magazine and Review, Or, Universal Miscellany
“The easy option: Pronouncing it phonetically, like the word mare.”
“You're as different from other women as that kind of a mare is from scrub work-horse mares.”
“This mare is due to foal 4/25/08 so I am looking forward to that date.”
“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
“A young mare is sent galloping down the length of the manga as the mounted charros stand ready with their lariats.”
“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.”
“Then I stepped down in front of Mollie -- as I called the mare -- into the trail, and started to lead her.”
“See to it that my mare is saddled in ten minutes and Blue Devil harnessed to your master's curricle!”
“With half the county courtin 'her it ain't to be expected that she'd go as sober as a grey mare, is it?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mare’.
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Unknown
coalition, cabinet, tweet, defuse, steep, ancestral, mindset, breach, infraction, egregious, curb, backbite and 282 more...
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horses
everything horses
horse, bay, bloodhorse, bloodstock, bolter, broncho, bronco, brumby, bucker, buckjumper, cob, cocktail and 200 more...
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animals (1 syllable)
A list of common animal names. Keep the list to 1 syllable words.No scientific names. No proper names like 'Fluffy' the elephant.Insects and other creatures (even ficticious) are welcome!You can ...
dog, cat, bear, bee, ass, ape, horse, squid, bug, hare, hawk, pig and 138 more...
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lunacy
moon-related
moon dog, transient lunar p..., selenography, moonbow, paraselene, maria, parantiselene, moon, luna, trapper's moon, harvest moon, hunter's moon and 94 more...
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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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Surprising four-letter words
I imagine most of these will be Anglo-Saxon, not likely to crop up in the average day's conversation, and thus excellent for Scrabble. ("most" is too common, likewise "will" and even "crop", in an...
blet, quim, clit, buff, sire, wiki, blog, loam, waft, heft, mare, lilt and 68 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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Mr. Prolagus is surprised
Words - or different usages of words I already knew - that I am learning thanks to Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery.
See also ofravens' with thanks to Anne Shirley.alder, decorum, ferret, dint, wont, gauntlet, turnip, sorrel, deft, embower, scant, peck and 92 more...
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Is it morning yet?
coterie, lexeme, counterbalance, forthright, pigtail, ponytail, french-braid, barrette, listless, counsel, sitting duck, dead duck and 268 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (M)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
mace, macintosh, madras, magenta, magic 8 ball, magma, mahogany, maiden, mail, mainsail, maize, malachite and 169 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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cat 2012
mala fide, trafficking, impoverished, atrocity, divulge, personify, audacity, resurrect, dubious, bloated, sovereign, rein and 123 more...
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HorsesintheSouth
Words pertaining to horses, equines, equestrians
horse, equine, equestrian, dressage, hunter, jumper, puissance, capriole, sidepass, levade, augurian, coop and 296 more...
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Tunie: The Devil and the Feathery Wife
Recorded by Martin Carthy.
Now there was an old farmer lived over the hill
And a poor old fellow they say
He was plagued by a scolding wife
The worst misfortune that day<...demons, dwell, quail, damned, hiss, steam, navel, tea, feathers, barrel, stark naked, droppings and 27 more...
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Equitation
Including but not limited to: horse breeds, horse terms, and items of equine interest.
appaloosa, percheron, ardennes, belgian, clydesdale, morgan, arabian, quarter horse, morab, shire, sheffield, boulonnais and 67 more...
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equestrian
paddock, canter, bridle, stirrup, colt, foal, stallion, filly, mare, gelding, weanling, yearling and 10 more...
Tweets
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freericky a dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon; the dark spots we see Jun 18, 2008