Associations to the word «Mare»

Wiktionary

MARE, noun. An adult female horse.
MARE, noun. (UK) (pejorative) (slang) A foolish woman.
MARE, noun. (obsolete outside dialects) 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.
MARE, noun. (UK) (colloquial) (Shortening of nightmare) A nightmare; a frustrating or terrible experience.
MARE, noun. (planetology) A dark, large circular plain; a “sea”.
MARE, noun. (planetology) On Saturn's moon Titan, a large expanse of what is thought to be liquid hydrocarbons.
MARE CLAUSUM, noun. (international law) A body of water within the jurisdiction of a particular nation, and not part of the open sea.

Dictionary definition

MARE, noun. Female equine animal.
MARE, noun. A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon.

Wise words

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras