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One of the spots on a dappled animal. He has . . . as many eyes on his body as my gray mare hath dapples. Sir P. Sidney.

A pannier, or basket. To hire a ripper's mare, and buy new dossers. Beau. & Fl.

The nightmare. Brande & C.

A female foal or colt; a young mare. Cf. Colt, Foal. Neighing in likeness of a filly foal. Shak.

set of teeth of a horse. -- In foal, With foal, being with young; pregnant; -- said of a mare or she ass.

Ridden by a hag or witch; hence, afflicted with nightmare. Beattie. Cheyne.

r hitches up his trousers. (c) To attach, as a horse, to a vehicle; as, hitch up the gray mare. [Colloq.]

each side of each jaw, with six incisors, and two canine teeth, both above and below. The mares usually have the canine teeth rudimentary or wanting. The horse differs from the true asses, in having a long, flowing mane, and the tail bushy to the base. Unlike the asses it has callosities, or chestnuts, on all its legs.…

The nightmare. See Nightmare. Such as are troubled with incubus, or witch-ridden, as we call it. Burton.

The fabled offspring of a bull and a mare. Locke.

An intoxicating fermented or distilled liquor originally made by the Tartars from mare's or camel's milk. It can be obtained from any kind of milk, and is now largely made in Europe. [Written also koumyss, kumiss, kumish, and kumys.] Koumiss has from time immemorial served the Tartar instead of wine or spirits. J. H. N…

An animal (usually an old mare), wearing a bell and acting as the leader of a troop of pack mules. [S. America]

A mare. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A hybrid animal; specifically, one generated between an ass and a mare, sometimes a horse and a she-ass. See Hinny.

na rose and the musk rose. It has given rise to many fine varieties, as the Lamarque, the Marechal (or Marshal) Niel, and the Cloth of gold. Most roses of this class have clustered flowers and are of vigorous growth. P. Henderson.

A sea open to all nations. See Mare clausum.

lity of being distanguishable from the perceiving mind, by being in space, and possessing marerial quality; externality; objectivity. The outness of the objects of sense. Sir W. Hamiltom.

Nightmare.

To copulate with; to cover; as, a horse serves a mare; -- said of the male.

anchor against the side of a vessel when it is secured for a voyage. -- To ride shank's mare, to go on foot; to walk.