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the chest, occurring during sleep; the incubus; -- obsolete, except in the compound nightmare. I will ride thee o' nights like the mare. Shak.

Lit., closed sea; hence, a body of water within the separate jurisdiction of the nation; -- opposed to open sea, the water open to all nations and over which no single nation has special control.

A supposed discovery which turns out to be a hoax; something grosaly absurd.

horse's tail, and believed to indicate rain; a cirrus cloud. See Cloud. Mackerel sky and mare's-tails Make tall ships carry low sails. Old Rhyme.

A kind of large yellow rose. [Written also Marshal Niel.]

A Marsh. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A European whitefish of the genus Coregonus.

A military officer of high rank; a marshal. [Obs.]

Shame; abuse. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A French coasting lugger.

A collection of maritime laws of disputed origin, supposed to have been first published at Barcelona early in the 14th century. It has formed the basis of most of the subsequent collections of maritime laws. Kent. Bouvier.

ring wakefulness, attended by the peculiar pressure on the chest which characterizes nightmare. Dunglison.

A lodging house for Mohammedan pilgrims. Moore.

A fiend or incubus formerly supposed to cause trouble in sleep.

See Simar.

Good against nightmare. -- n.

on seal fishing in the Bering Sea, over which the United States claimed jurisdiction as a mare clausum. A court of arbitration, meeting in Paris in 1893, decided against the claim of the United States, but established regulations for the preservation of the fur seal.

Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow.

The nightmare. Dunaglison.

To copulate with (a female); to serve; as. a horse covers a mare; -- said of the male. To cover ground or distance, to pass over; as, the rider covered the ground in an hour. -- To cover one's short contracts (Stock Exchange), to buy stock when the market rises, as a dealer who has sold short does in order to protect…