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means A mare is an adult female horse (or female donkey, zebra, or other equine), the counterpart to the stallion.
from Straight out of Old English 'mere,' the female of 'mearh' (horse), with kin across the Germanic family — Old Norse 'merr,' German 'Mähre.' The same root gallops into 'marshal,' which began as a 'horse-servant' (from Frankish 'marah-skalk,' horse-servant) before climbing the ranks to mean a commander. Note the false friend: the 'mare' in 'nightmare' is a wholly different beast — an Old English 'mære,' a crushing demon that sat on sleepers' chests, with no equine connection at all.
- foal factory
- carries a single foal for 11 long months
- moon link
- the word means nightmare's haunting night-spirit
- lunar seas
- the moon's dark plains are called maria
- herd boss
- a lead mare often rules over stallions
- memory beast
- recognizes human faces years after meeting them
mare nostrum — roman name for the mediterranean sea, meaning 'our sea'
mare tranquillitatis — lunar sea where apollo 11 landed in 1969
mare imbrium — largest lunar mare, visible from earth as dark spot on moon