Hypertext Webster Gateway: "mare"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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}]
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