mare Definition

• Mare ((n.))

  The female of the horse and other equine quadrupeds.

• Mare ((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.

• Mare's-nest ((n.))

  A supposed discovery which turns out to be a hoax; something grosaly absurd.

• Mare's-tail ((n.))

  A long streaky cloud, spreading out like a horse's tail, and believed to indicate rain; a cirrus cloud. See Cloud.

• Mare's-tail ((n.))

  An aquatic plant of the genus Hippuris (H. vulgaris), having narrow leaves in whorls.

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