mane [ meyn ] SHOW IPA
/ meɪn / PHONETIC RESPELLING
See synonyms for: mane / manes on Thesaurus.com noun
the long hair growing on the back of or around the neck and neighboring parts of some animals, as the horse or lion.
Informal . (on a human being) a head of distinctively long and thick or rough hair.
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Origin of mane before 900; Middle English; Old English manu; cognate with German Mähne, Dutch manen, Old Norse mǫn
OTHER WORDS FROM mane maned, adjective maneless, adjective un·maned, adjective
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How to use mane in a sentence The fossil of a chicken-sized, meat eater from Brazil that had a mane of fluffy filaments and a pair of stiff, ribbon-like streamers emerging from both shoulders is the first dinosaur with feathers ever discovered in the Southern Hemisphere.
On our first test run, we didn’t even notice this beanie’s ponytail hole, which, it turns out, accommodates even the thickest of mane s.
So does Baglio's book actually feature nail-spitting 16-year-old pregnant hotties and red-eyed, black-mane d horsies?
Among the attendees are three Indian novelists and the famous cotton-mane d Franco-Bulgarian philosopher, Tzvetan Todorov.
It was, in some respects, an unenviable role for the gray-mane d Gregory—whose age, a tender 39, has yet to catch up to his hair.
But romantically, there was still no indication of the jungle-mane d Casanova to come.
He waited and watched, and, when the black-mane d one moved away, he followed him about everywhere till at last he got him alone.
Above each roof, the high pole of a pigeon-house; over each entry a little short-mane d horse of wrought iron.
The head was white-mane d, leonine, with handsome florid features and sharp blue eyes.
This monster has a mane d neck, resembling a horse, a back of a grey colour, the belly inclining to white.
There was a lion, a great, black-mane d lion, in the New York zoo.
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British Dictionary definitions for mane
noun
the long coarse hair that grows from the crest of the neck in such mammals as the lion and horse
long thick human hair
Derived forms of mane maned , adjective maneless , adjective Word Origin for mane Old English manu; related to Old High German mana, Old Norse mön, and perhaps to Old English mene and Old High German menni necklace
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