mare, female horse
(noun) female equine animal
mare, maria
(noun) a dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon
Source: WordNet® 3.1
mare (plural mares)
An adult female horse.
(UK, pejorative, slang) A foolish woman.
• stallion, stud and gelding refer to adult male horses (a colt refers to an immature one)
• (adult female horse): foal (young horse), colt (young male horse) and filly (young female horse); pony can refer to adult horses of either sex under a certain height.
mare (plural mares)
(obsolete or historical) A type of evil spirit formerly thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; also, the feeling of suffocation felt during sleep, attributed to such a spirit.
(UK, colloquial) (Clipping of nightmare) A nightmare; a frustrating or terrible experience.
mare (plural maria)
(planetology) A large, dark plain, which may have the appearance of a sea.
(planetology) On Saturn's moon Titan, a large expanse of what is thought to be liquid hydrocarbons.
• Amer., Arem, Erma, Ream, amer., mear, rame, ramé, ream
Source: Wiktionary
Mare, n. Etym: [OE. mere, AS. mere, myre, fem of AS. mearh horse, akin to D. merrie mare, G. mähre, OHG. marah horse, meriha mare, Icel. marr horse, OCelt. marka (Pausan. 19, 19,4), Ir. marc, W. march. Cf. Marshal.]
Definition: The female of the horse and other equine quadrupeds.
Mare, n. Etym: [AS. mara incubus; akin to OHG. & Icel. mara; cf. Pol. mora, Bohem. m.] (Med.)
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
17 November 2024
(noun) asceticism as a form of religious life; usually conducted in a community under a common rule and characterized by celibacy and poverty and obedience
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
