Mare

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  • noun. An adult female horse or the adult female of other equine species.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Oppressed sleep; incubus, formerly regarded as an evil spirit of the night that oppresses persons during sleep: now used only in the compound nightmare.
  • noun. The female of the horse, or of other species of the genus Equus.
  • noun. A few ears of grain left standing and tied together, at which the harvesters throw their sickles till the knot is cut.
  • An obsolete form of more.
  • noun. A sea; specifically, in astronomy, a name for certain dark regions on the surface of the moon which were supposed by Galileo and other early observers to be seas or oceans, and are now regarded as plains; also a name for certain dark regions on the planet Mars.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Sighing, suffocative panting, intercepted utterance, with a sense of pressure across the chest, occurring during sleep; the incubus; -- obsolete, except in the compound nightmare.
  • noun. The female of the horse and other equine quadrupeds.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A type of evil spirit thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; also the feeling of suffocation felt during sleep; a nightmare.
  • noun. (Shortening of nightmare) A nightmare; a frustrating or terrible experience.
  • noun. An adult female horse.
  • noun. A foolish woman.
  • noun. A dark, large circular plain; a “sea”.
  • noun. On Saturn's moon Titan, a large expanse of what is thought to be liquid hydrocarbons.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. female equine animal
  • noun. a dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon
  • Word Usage
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    nightmare  
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    Adair  Aer  Altair  Astaire  Ayre  
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    ass  bull  cat  charger  chestnut  
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