*mare*

{ } n. [ AS. bismer. ] Shame; abuse. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a female horse used for breeding.
Syn. -- stud mare. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ F., fr. chasser to chase + marée tide. ] (Naut.) A French coasting lugger. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖ [ It., the consulate of the sea. ] A collection of maritime laws of disputed origin, supposed to have been first published at Barcelona early in the 14th century. It has formed the basis of most of the subsequent collections of maritime laws. Kent. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Day + mare incubus. ] (Med.) A kind of incubus which occurs during wakefulness, attended by the peculiar pressure on the chest which characterizes nightmare. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Turk., fr. Ar. 'imāra. ] A lodging house for Muslim pilgrims. Moore. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will ride thee o' nights like the mare. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ F. ] A kind of large yellow rose. [ Written also Marshal Niel. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ L. ] (Internat. Law) Lit., closed sea; hence, a body of water within the separate jurisdiction of the nation; -- opposed to open sea (mare liberum), the water open to all nations and over which no single nation has special control. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A Marsh. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., free sea. ] A navigable body of water to which all nations have equal access; the opposite of mare clausum. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ NL. Salmo maraena, G. maräne, moräne; -- so called from Lake Morin, in the March of Brandenburg, in Prussia. ] (Zool.) A European whitefish of the genus Coregonus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. our sea. ] The term used by the ancient Romans to refer to the Mediterranean Sea. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OF. mareschal, F. maréchal. See Marshal. ] A military officer of high rank; a marshal. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A supposed discovery which turns out to be a hoax; something grossly absurd. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A confused multitude of things.
Syn. -- clutter, jumble, muddle, welter, smother. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. A long streaky cloud, spreading out like a horse's tail, and believed to indicate rain; a cirrus cloud. See Cloud. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mackerel sky and mare's-tails
Make tall ships carry low sails. Old Rhyme. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) An aquatic plant of the genus Hippuris (Hippuris vulgaris), having narrow leaves in whorls. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Night + mare incubus. See Mare incubus. ] 1. A fiend or incubus formerly supposed to cause trouble in sleep. [ archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A trerrifying or oppressive dream characterized by a sense of helplessness in the face of danger, extreme uneasiness or discomfort (as of weight on the chest or stomach, impossibility of motion or speech, etc.) or extreme anxiety, from which one wakes in a troubled state of mind. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

3. Hence: Any overwhelming, oppressive, or terrifying experience resembling a nightmare{ 2 } especially in the inability to escape from an unpleasant situation. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]