Index of English words, starting with "ma"

(1) - Mare (n.) Sighing, suffocative panting, intercepted utterance, with a sense of pressure across the chest, occurring during sleep; the incubus; -- obsolete, except in the compound nightmare.
(2) - Mare (n.) The female of the horse and other equine quadrupeds.

(1) - Mare's-nest (n.) A supposed discovery which turns out to be a hoax; something grosaly absurd.

(1) - Mare's-tail (n.) An aquatic plant of the genus Hippuris (H. vulgaris), having narrow leaves in whorls.
(2) - Mare's-tail (n.) A long streaky cloud, spreading out like a horse's tail, and believed to indicate rain; a cirrus cloud. See Cloud.