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Locks in a paddock
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mane
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
The mane is the hair that grows from the top of the neck of a horse or other equine , reaching from the poll to the withers , and includes the forelock or foretop. It is thicker and coarser than the rest of the horse's coat, and naturally grows to roughly ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Behind the flying mane Elmer sits, leaning back, absolutely still. ▪ Mrs Taxos spoke sharply and Meg scrambled all anyhow on to the warm fur back and gripped the springy mane . ▪ Not with a mane and all. ▪ Perhaps the most impressive ...
Usage examples of mane.
There is no beard, the face being smooth and dark ashy, but on the fore-quarters and neck the hair lengthens into a magnificent mane, which sometimes reaches to the knees.
He entered the room quietly, a graying shadow of his portrait, his speckled bow tie askew, his mane of white hair tousled.
The head pushed forward, bringing into visibility thickly maned shoulders, forefeet with sharply split hooves as dreadfully bedabbled as the horns.
He stared at the sight of the demure Miss Capel on her knees, with her hair falling in a mane across her eyes.
A long white line of foam sped from the darkness, a great comber whose top was the tossing manes of hundreds of white horses.
Porta manes, et stella maris, succurre cadenti surgere qui curat populo!
Mary Jane pulled the turban off her head and shook out a massive amount of black hair, combing it with her fingers to detangle the waist length mane.
While awaiting them were not only members of the maned race, and robed Deves, but a new type of Lochanian native.
Winter did not daunt him, and when the snows came and the foxes and ermines turned their coats to snowiest white, he was one of the rare ones who continued to go out, he and his piebald pony, a shaggy beast as gay in its coat as the city with its painting, looking out on the icy world through a shag of yellow mane and forelock that let all the world wonder whether there was a horse within it.
His mane of bronze hair floated around his ruined face as he prowled up and down in front of the panel.
He frowned guiltily, knowing he had shattered their uneasy truce with his absurd urge to groom that tangled mane of hers.
Cyrus Harding had profited by a moment when he was sleeping, to cut his hair and matted beard, which formed a sort of mane and gave him such a savage aspect.
Poloniensis obiit: natus anno 1530 die 13 Januarii, hora quarta mane min.
May 11th, mane hora octava William Emery of Danbery in Essex became my retayner at Mortlak, commended by Mr.
Just by himself, Roger Lowry was a spectacle to catch the eye and hold it, with his fine, noble head, his mane of pale-gold hair, his ingenuous stare, and his six feet six inches of poised herculean brawn.