mare

  1. Noun.  An adult female horse.
  2. Noun.  (UK, slang) A foolish woman.
  3. 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.
  4. Noun.  (UK, colloquial) (Shortening of (term, nightmare) ) A nightmare; a frustrating or terrible experience.
  5. Noun.  (planetology) A dark, large circular plain; a “sea”.
  6. Noun.  (planetology) On Saturn's moon Titan, a large expanse of what is thought to be liquid hydrocarbons.

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