hare

IPA: hˈɛr

(countable) Any of several plant-eating animals of the family Leporidae, especially of the genus Lepus, similar to a rabbit, but larger and with longer ears.
(uncountable) The meat from this animal.
(countable) The player in a paperchase, or hare and hounds game, who leaves a trail of paper to be followed.
A surname transferred from the nickname.
Synonym of Sahtú
A hamlet in Broadway parish, South Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST2915).
An unincorporated community in Williamson County, Texas, United States.

Examples of "hare" in Sentences

The little hare is in her hands and she will take all the necessary care and advice.
OF all the animals in the forest the hare is the wisest, and the animals all know this.
All those pictures are beautiful, but he picture of the beagles and the hare is my favorite.
The tortoise and the hare is like you sitting watching a guy getting his butt kicked and hoping he's going to land a punch and win.
* The correct species name for the Brown hare is controversial and the reality/monophyly of the Blue hare has recently been contested.
There does appear to be widespread acceptance of its specific status, however, even though there is some indication that the species hybridizes with the Mountain hare L. timidus (Melo-Ferreira et al. 2005).
And now I'm reading John Green's marvelous An Abundance of Katherines, and am pleased to have found another child for whom fables were not all that: "if only he'd known that the story of the tortoise and the hare is about more than a tortoise and a hare, he might have saved himself considerable trouble."