MARE

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The female of the horse and other equine quadrupeds.

2.
n.

Sighing, suffocative panting, intercepted utterance, with a sense of pressure across the chest, occurring during sleep; the incubus; -- obsolete, except in the compound nightmare. I will ride thee o' nights like the mare. Shak.