mare
IPA: mˈɛr
noun
- An adult female horse.
- (UK, derogatory, slang) A foolish woman.
- (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, Ireland, Commonwealth, colloquial) A nightmare; a frustrating or terrible experience.
- (planetology) A large, dark plain, which may have the appearance of a sea, such as those on the Moon
- (planetology) On Saturn's moon Titan, any of several lakes which are large expanses of what is thought to be liquid hydrocarbons.
- Obsolete form of mayor. [The chief executive of the municipal government of a city, borough, etc., formerly (historical) usually appointed as a caretaker by European royal courts but now usually appointed or elected locally.]
- Obsolete form of mair. [(Scotland, historical) Various former royal officials in the Kingdom of Scotland.]
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Examples of "mare" in Sentences
- Dad gave me my first mare.
- The horsemen held the mare.
- The mare was also emaciated.
- The mares were bored and uninterested.
- The picture of the mare and filly is mine.
- Mares is most famous for his Kachina pieces.
- The crater Neper is located to the north of the mare.
- The mare is in the outer rings of the Procellarum basin.
- Mate the bull to the cow or the stallion to the mare etc.
- The easy option: Pronouncing it phonetically, like the word mare.
- This mare is due to foal 4/25/08 so I am looking forward to that date.
- The albedo of this floor is similar to the lunar mare to the southeast.
- You're as different from other women as that kind of a mare is from scrub work-horse mares.
- Then I stepped down in front of Mollie -- as I called the mare -- into the trail, and started to lead her.
- A young mare is sent galloping down the length of the manga as the mounted charros stand ready with their lariats.
- Our vast country "a mari usque ad mare" is not too large since we need all the ten Provinces to go from sea to sea.
- TO SOLOMON 9AGEBARO, E3 in fupport of his opinion, that a woman was a man, though a man was not a woman; by the fame rule, and for the fame reafon, as a mare is a horfe, though a horfe is not a mare*
- I look at it this way "this are leaders who are looking for other leaders to work with" rather than "I will be Hamas's worst nightmare" why do you want to be their worst night mare, is that how you resolve issues?
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