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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats