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Webster 1913 Edition


Mare

Mare

(mâr)
,
Noun.
[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
.]
The female of the horse and other equine quadrupeds.

Mare

,
Noun.
[AS.
mara
incubus; akin to OHG. & Icel.
mara
; cf. Pol.
mora
, Bohem.
můra
.]
(Med.)
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
.
Shakespeare

Webster 1828 Edition


Mare

MARE

,
Noun.
The female of the horse,or equine genus of quadrupeds.
A kind or torpor or stagnation which seems to press the stomach in sleep; the incubus. [It is now used only in the compound, nightmare, which ought to be written nightmar.]

Definition 2024


måre

måre

See also: mare, maare, Mare, maré, Maré, and Marē

Istro-Romanian

Noun

måre f

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