hare
see also: Hare
Pronunciation
Hare
Proper noun
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see also: Hare
Pronunciation
- IPA: /hɛɚ/, /heɹ/, /heə/
hare (plural hares)
- Any of several plant-eating animals of the family Leporidae, especially of the genus Lepus, similar to a rabbit, but larger and with longer ears.
- The player in a paperchase, or hare and hounds game, who leaves a trail of paper to be followed.
- French: lièvre, hase
- German: Hase
- Italian: lepre
- Portuguese: lebrão, lebre
- Russian: за́яц
- Spanish: liebre
hare (hares, present participle haring; past and past participle hared)
- (intransitive) To move swiftly.
hare (hares, present participle haring; past and past participle hared)
- (obsolete) To excite; to tease, or worry; to harry.
, John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education. - To hare and rate them thus at every turn, is not to teach them, but to vex, and torment them to no purpoſe.
hare
- (regional) Grey, hoary; grey-haired, venerable (of people).
- a hare old man
- (regional) Cold, frosty (of weather).
- a hare day
Hare
Proper noun
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