hare
IPA: hˈɛr
noun
- (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.
verb
- (intransitive) To move swiftly.
- (obsolete) To excite; to tease, or worry; to harry.
adjective
- (regional) Grey, hoary; grey-haired, venerable (of people).
- (regional) Cold, frosty (of weather).
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Examples of "hare" in Sentences
- This is the Hare psychopath checklist.
- The hunter then sees the hare sleeping.
- At first, the hare was afraid of the tiger.
- The hare was the symbol of the shy and timid satyr.
- Soon the hare and the hound disappeared into the dene.
- Also, the hare is not transformed at the end of the tale.
- The hares and the rabbits cannot teach the tortoises to run.
- Can rabbits and hares interbreed and produce viable offspring
- The Belgian Hare is one of the most intelligent and energetic rabbits.
- They are herbivorous animals and smaller relatives of rabbits and hares.
- 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."