mare
- Noun. An adult female horse.
- Noun. (UK, slang) A foolish woman.
- Noun. (context, now) 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.
- Noun. (UK, colloquial) (Shortening of (term, nightmare) ) A nightmare; a frustrating or terrible experience.
- Noun. (planetology) A dark, large circular plain; a “sea”.
- Noun. (planetology) On Saturn's moon Titan, a large expanse of what is thought to be liquid hydrocarbons.
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