Mare

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mare \Mare\ (m[^a]r), n. [OE. mere, AS. mere, myre, fem of AS.
     mearh horse, akin to D. merrie mare, G. m[aum]hre, OHG. marah
     horse, meriha mare, Icel. marr horse, OCelt. marka (Pausan.
     19, 19,4), Ir. marc, W. march. Cf. {Marshal}.]
     The female of the horse and other equine quadrupeds.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mare \Mare\, n. [AS. mara incubus; akin to OHG. & Icel. mara;
     cf. Pol. mora, Bohem. m[*u]ra.] (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.
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           I will ride thee o' nights like the mare. --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  maria \maria\ n. pl.
     1. (Astron.) Plural form of {mare}, a dark region of
        considerable extent on the surface of the moon.
        [WordNet 1.5]
  
     2. (Bot.) A valuable timber tree of Panama.
  
     Syn: Calophyllum longifolium.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mare
       n 1: female equine animal [syn: {female horse}]
       2: a dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the
          moon [syn: {maria}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  107 Moby Thesaurus words for "mare":
     Houyhnhnm, Partlet, alkali flat, alluvial plain, basin, biddy,
     bitch, bossy, bottomland, brood mare, bushveld, campo, champaign,
     champaign country, charger, coastal plain, colt, courser, cow,
     critter, delta, desert, dobbin, doe, down, downs, entire,
     entire horse, equine, ewe, ewe lamb, fell, filly, flat,
     flat country, flatland, flats, foal, gelding, grass veld,
     grassland, guinea hen, gyp, heath, heifer, hen, hind, horse, jenny,
     lande, level, lioness, llano, lowland, lowlands, lunar mare, mesa,
     mesilla, moor, moorland, mount, nag, nanny, nanny goat,
     open country, pampa, pampas, peahen, peneplain, plain, plains,
     plateau, playa, prairie, prancer, roe, salt flat, salt marsh,
     salt pan, savanna, sebkha, she-bear, she-goat, she-lion, slut, sow,
     stallion, steed, steppe, stud, studhorse, table, tableland, tarpan,
     tigress, top horse, tree veld, tundra, upland, vega, veld, vixen,
     war-horse, weald, wide-open spaces, wild horse, wold