Exact Match for "mare"
- mare⇄mare (1), noun.
a female horse or donkey, especially when mature.
Ex. In two and a half hours, sixteen yearlings and 23 brood mares were auctioned off (Newsweek). - mare⇄mare (2), noun.
(Obsolete.)
1. a goblin once believed to cause nightmares by sitting on the chest of the sleeper.
2. the nightmare itself. - mare⇄mare (3), noun, pl.maria.
1. (Astronomy.)
a. a broad, flat, dark area on the moon.
Ex. ... these dark areas appear as smooth gray plains, so uniform that Galileo and his contemporaries thought they might be seas and accordingly called t
Starts With "mare"
- mare clausum⇄mare clausum,
(Latin.) a closed sea; waters within the sphere of control of one nation. - mare liberum⇄mare liberum,
(Latin.) open sea; the high seas. - mare nostrum⇄mare nostrum,
(Latin.) our sea.
Ex. The Mediterranean ... Rome's mare nostrum (Time). - mare's-nest⇄mare's-nest, noun.
1. a supposedly great discovery that turns out to be a mistake or hoax.
Ex. In Mr. Sutliff's opinion, Mr. Kraushauer had run off after a mare's-nest (John Stephen Strange).
2. a condition of great disorder or confusio - mare's-tail⇄mare's-tail, noun.
1. a long, feathery circus cloud shaped somewhat like a horse's tail.
2. a water plant, with many circles of narrow, hairlike leaves around the stems.
3. horsetail (def. 2). - Marek's disease⇄Marek's disease,
a contagious disease of the lymph system of chickens, caused by a herpesvirus and resulting in paralysis, blindness, and tumors; fowl paralysis. It is the most common form of the avian leucosis complex. - maremma⇄maremma, noun, pl.-remme.
1. a low, marshy, unhealthful region by the seashore.
2. the miasma of such a region. - mareschal⇄mareschal, noun.
(Obsolete or Archaic.) marshal. - Marezine⇄Marezine, noun.
(Trademark.) =cyclizine.
Ends With "mare"
- brood mare⇄brood mare
a mare kept for breeding. - daymare⇄daymare, noun.
an experience that is like a bad dream; a very distressing experience.
Ex. A peaceful drive through farmland suddenly turns into a daymare (Time). - flying mare⇄flying mare
(Wrestling.) a move made by seizing the opponent's wrist, turning, and throwing him forward and down across the shoulder. - nightmare⇄adj. like a nightmare; nightmarish.
Ex. a nightmare voyage across the ocean. ""For twelve hours I inhabited a nightmare world in which I experienced the torments of hell"" (Maclean's). - nightmare⇄nightmare, noun, adjective.
- nightmare⇄noun 1. a very distressing dream; dream causing fear or anxiety.
Ex. I would find myself plunged ... in some foul and ominous nightmare, from which I would awake strangling (Robert Louis Stevenson).
2. (Figurative.) a very distressing experi - shank's mare⇄expr. ride on shank's mare (or pony), (Informal.) to go on foot; walk.
Ex. I'd rather ... ride on shank's mare (S. Bishop). - shank's mare⇄shank's mare orpony
(Informal.) one's own feet; walking.
Ex. Pilgrims had converged from all over India--by train, by cart and by shank's mare (Scientific American).
Broader Match for "mare"
- amarelle⇄amarelle, noun.
any cultivated variety of sour cherry having light-red fruit and nearly colorless juice. - amaretto⇄amaretto, noun, pl.-tos.
an Italian liqueur with an almond taste. - bulimarexia⇄bulimarexia, noun.
a psychological disorder in which a person alternates between an abnormal craving for food and an aversion to it, found especially among young women. - bummaree⇄bummaree, noun.
(British.)
1. a middleman at the Billingsgate fish market.
2. a porter at the Smithfield meat market. - imaret⇄imaret, noun.
an inn for pilgrims and other travelers in Turkey. - pregnant mare's serum⇄pregnant mare's serum
a serum containing a hormone taken from pregnant mares and injected into ewes or cows to control ovulation.
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