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Mare : (noun)
1: female equine animal [syn: female horse]
2: a dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the
moon [syn: maria]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Mare : \Mare\ (m[^a]r), n. [OE. mere, AS. mere, myre, fem of AS.
mearh horse, akin to D. merrie mare, G. m["a]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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
I will ride thee o' nights like the mare. --Shak.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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