Mare

Definitions

1. A neighborhood and favela in Zona Norte district, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2. An adult female horse.
3. A type of evil spirit formerly thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; also, the feeling of suffocation felt during sleep, attributed to such a spirit.
   historical, obsolete
4. A large, dark plain, which may have the appearance of a sea, such as those on the Moon.
5. A diminutive of the female given names Mary, Maria, Marianne, or other female names beginning with Mar-, from Hebrew.
6. A foolish woman.
   Ireland, UK, derogatory, slang
7. A nightmare; a frustrating or terrible experience.
   Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial
8. On Saturn's moon Titan, any of several lakes which are large expanses of what is thought to be liquid hydrocarbons.

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Examples

“But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge,[…].”

“The silly mare phoned your mother, talking about applying for a mortgage, and we don't want⟳ that, do we?”

“I'm having a complete⟳ mare today.”

“Kraken Mare (a lake of liquid hydrocarbons on Titan which is slightly larger than the Caspian Sea)”

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