Mare
[meə] or [mɛr]
Definition
(noun.) female equine animal.
(noun.) a dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon.
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Definition
(n.) The female of the horse and other equine quadrupeds.
(n.) Sighing, suffocative panting, intercepted utterance, with a sense of pressure across the chest, occurring during sleep; the incubus; -- obsolete, except in the compound nightmare.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Female horse.
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Definition
n. the female of the horse.—ns. Mare's′-nest a supposed discovery which turns out to be a hoax; Mare's-tail a tall erect marsh plant of the genus Hippuris: (pl.) long straight fibres of gray cirrus cloud; Shank's′-mare a person's own legs as a means of travelling.—The gray mare is the better horse the wife rules her husband.
Typist: Penelope
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To dream of seeing mares in pastures, denotes success in business and congenial companions. If the pasture is barren, it foretells poverty, but warm friends. For a young woman, this omens a happy marriage and beautiful children. See Horse.
Typist: Melville
Examples
- I am like John-a-Duck's mare, that will let no man mount her but John-a-Duck. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- He has a white Pony to come and fetch him, and a groom in livery on a bay mare. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Whilst the two girls waited, Gerald Crich trotted up on a red Arab mare. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Your mare in the stable knows me as well as it knows you, and obeys me better. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He bit himself down on the mare like a keen edge biting home, and FORCED her round. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She began to think it rather hard upon the mare to have such double duty; if she were forgotten, the poor mare should be remembered. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I have myself recently bred a foal from a bay mare (offspring of a Turkoman horse and a Flemish mare) by a bay English race-horse. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- And when I saw those four there and thought that we might kill them I was like a mare in the corral waiting for the stallion. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- And he was very picturesque, at least in Gudrun's eyes, sitting soft and close on the slender red mare, whose long tail flowed on the air. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Gudrun looked and saw the trickles of blood on the sides of the mare, and she turned white. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Around her throng her eager, plump, happy feathered vassals John is about the stables, and John must be talked to, and her mare looked at. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- HE shall buy my horses, thought Rebecca, and I'll ride the mare. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The mare opened her mouth and rose slowly, as if lifted up on a wind of terror. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- His father would not own himself uneasy, and laughed at her fears; but she could not be cured of wishing that he would part with his black mare. Jane Austen. Emma.
- The horse immediately ordered a white mare servant of his family to bring me a good quantity of oats in a sort of wooden tray. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- If these Arabs be like the other Arabs, their love for their beautiful mares is a fraud. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Now you and I, Moore--there's a fine brown one for you, and full of gravy--you and I will have no gray mares in our stables when we marry. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She is at the most dangerous period for maidens as well as mares, said the old man, laughing at his own jest, being barely in her fifteenth year. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
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