Mare vs. Mear — Which is Correct Spelling?

A mare is an adult female horse or other equine.In most cases, a mare is a female horse over the age of three, and a filly is a female horse three and younger. In Thoroughbred horse racing, a mare is defined as a female horse more than four years old.

An adult female horse or the adult female of other equine species.

An adult female horse.

A foolish woman.

A type of evil spirit formerly thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; also, the feeling of suffocation felt during sleep, attributed to such a spirit.

A nightmare; a frustrating or terrible experience.

(planetology) A large, dark plain, which may have the appearance of a sea.

(planetology) On Saturn's moon Titan, any of several lakes which are large expanses of what is thought to be liquid hydrocarbons.

Obsolete form of mayor

Obsolete form of mair

The female of the horse and other equine quadrupeds.

Sighing, suffocative panting, intercepted utterance, with a sense of pressure across the chest, occurring during sleep; the incubus; - obsolete, except in the compound nightmare.

Female equine animal

A dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon