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mähre, OHG. marah horse,
meriha mare, Icel. marr horse, OCelt. marka
(Pausan. 19, 19,4), Ir. marc, W. march. Cf.
Marshal.] The female of the horse and other equine
quadrupeds.

Mare, n. [AS. mara incubus; akin
to OHG. & Icel. mara; cf. Pol. mora, Bohem.
můra.] (Med.) 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.

Mare"chal Niel" (?). [F.] A kind of large yellow
rose. [Written also Marshal Niel.]

Mar"eis (?), n. A Marsh.
[Obs.] Chaucer.

Ma*re"na (?), n. [NL. Salmo
maraena, G. maräne, moräne; -- so called
from Lake Morin, in the March of Brandenburg, in Prussia.]
(Zoöl.) A European whitefish of the genus
Coregonus.

Mare"schal (?), n.

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