Hypertext Webster Gateway: "vare"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Vare \Vare\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
A weasel. [Prov. Eng.]
{Vare widgeon} (Zo["o]l.), a female or young male of the
smew; a weasel duck; -- so called from the resemblance of
the head to that of a vare, or weasel. [Prov. Eng.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Vare \Vare\, n. [Sp. vara staff, wand, L. vara forked pole.]
A wand or staff of authority or justice. [Obs.]
His hand a vare of justice did uphold. --Dryden.
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