Mane
[meɪn] or [men]
Definition
(noun.) long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck.
(noun.) growth of hair covering the scalp of a human being.
Typist: Osborn--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Typed by Eddie
Definition
n. the long hair flowing from the neck of some quadrupeds as the horse and the lion.—adjs. Maned having a mane; Mane′less without a mane; Mane′-like (Tenn.) like a mane: hanging in the form of a mane.—n. Mane′-sheet a covering for the upper part of a horse's head.
Typist: Ursula
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. The immortal parts of dead Greeks and Romans. They were in a state of dull discomfort until the bodies from which they had exhaled were buried and burned; and they seem not to have been particularly happy afterward.
Editor: Nat
Examples
- And as she swung her head, her fine mane of hair just swept his face, and all his nerves were on fire, as with a subtle friction of electricity. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But somebody saw you at Throope Corner leading it home--a beauty, with a white face and a mane as black as night. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Like nearly all Martian animals it is almost hairless, having only a great bristly mane about its thick neck. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Just to comb out this shaggy black mane. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Ahead of them was a reddish promontory running out into the calm waters, the trees fringing its crest like the mane of some wild animal. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- That was plainly to be seen, for Ma was talking then at her usual canter, with arched head and mane, opened eyes and nostrils. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- At this day he said he could recall the sensation of her little hands smoothing his cheek, or burying themselves in his thick mane. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He was, indeed, a weird figure as he turned his white mane and his glowing eyes towards us. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- A beauty, with a white face and a mane as black as night. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- And if turning up my hair makes me one, I'll wear it in two tails till I'm twenty, cried Jo, pulling off her net, and shaking down a chestnut mane. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I'll give it to you, Marmee, just to remember past glories by, for a crop is so comfortable I don't think I shall ever have a mane again. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- As it was much too big, it was put upon a chair where he could hold it by the mane and contemplate it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I saw him through the window, seizing his horse's mane, and mounting in his blundering brutal manner, and sidling and backing away. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The horses were generally very strong, formed much like the Norman horse, and with very heavy manes and tails. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Hear him not; call on the manes of William, Justine, Clerval, Elizabeth, my father, and of the wretched Victor, and thrust your sword into his heart. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I manes no offence. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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