mare

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He should have returned, for the mare was a good roadster when she did not balk.

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  1. noun A female horse or the female of other equine species.
  2. noun Any of the large dark areas on the moon or on Mars or other planets.

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  • So she and her mare were the same in his eyes, were they? —  Garwood, Julie - The Bride
  • In fact, the mare was already fading out, for regardless of dawn, it was no longer bound when Tandy left the dreamstate. —  Ogre Ogre
  • Just as a female horse was called a mare, and a female pig a sow. —  Demons Don't Dream
  • More pain as a stamp cracked ribs through mail and padding, and then the mare was away and took the fence in a floating leap that brought a gasp of wonder to him, even through the agony in arm and chest. —  Map.html
  • Keller said the mare was artificially bred with infected semen from one of four Kentucky stallions that have been diagnosed with CEM. —  TheHorse.com News
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  1. Middle English, alteration of Old English mȳre (influenced by forms of mearh, horse); see marko- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Latin, sea; see mori- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English mare, mere, meere, mure, from Anglo-Saxon mere, myre = OFries. merie = Dutch merrie = Middle Low German Low German merie = Old High German merihā, merhā, Middle High German meriche, merhe, German mähre = Icelandic merr = Swedish märr = Danish mær, a mare; feminine to Anglo-Saxon mear, mearh = Old High German marah, march, marc, Middle High German march, marc = Icelandic marr (Goth, not recorded), a horse, steed, = Irish Gaelic marc = Welsh march = Cornish march (Old Celtic μάρκας, in Pausanias), a horse, stallion. The Teutonic forms may, however, be derived from the Celtic. The masculine form has disappeared from English and G., except as found in the disguised compound marshal.
  2. from Middle English mare, mere, from Anglo-Saxon mara, an incubus, = Middle Low German mare, mār, Low German mare, mar, mor = Old High German maro, mar, Middle High German mar, German dial. mahr, mar = Icelandic mara = Swedish mara = Danish mare, nightmare; cf. Old French mare, an incubus, also in comp. cauchemare, cochemare, cauquemare, French cauchemar, nightmare, from Old French caucher, from Latin calcare, tread upon, + mare, incubus; cf. Polish mara, a vision, dream, nightmare; Bohemian mura, incubus; prob. literally ‘crusher,’ from the root of Anglo-Saxon mirran, myrran, hinder, mar, orig. ‘crush’: see mar.
  3. Latin, a sea: see mere and marine.
 

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