n. [ OE. mere, AS. mere, myre, fem of AS. mearh horse, akin to D. merrie mare, G. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will ride thee o' nights like the mare. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ F. ] A kind of large yellow rose. [ Written also Marshal Niel. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ L. ] (Internat. Law) Lit., closed sea; hence, a body of water within the separate jurisdiction of the nation; -- opposed to open sea (mare liberum), the water open to all nations and over which no single nation has special control. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A Marsh. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., free sea. ] A navigable body of water to which all nations have equal access; the opposite of mare clausum. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ NL. Salmo maraena, G. maräne, moräne; -- so called from Lake Morin, in the March of Brandenburg, in Prussia. ] (Zool.) A European whitefish of the genus Coregonus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. our sea. ] The term used by the ancient Romans to refer to the Mediterranean Sea. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OF. mareschal, F. maréchal. See Marshal. ] A military officer of high rank; a marshal. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A supposed discovery which turns out to be a hoax; something grossly absurd. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A confused multitude of things.
Syn. -- clutter, jumble, muddle, welter, smother. [ WordNet 1.5 ]