mane
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 6
- Words With Friends
- 8
- Letters
- 4
Definition of mane
5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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Longer hair growth on back of neck of an animal, especially a horse or lion.
“Before they went to see Glinda, however, they were taken to a room of the Castle, where Dorothy washed her face and combed her hair, and the Lion shook the dust out of his mane, and the Scarecrow patted himself into his best shape, and the Woodman polished his tin and oiled his joints.”
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noun
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Longer hair growth on back of neck of an animal, especially a horse or lion.
“Before they went to see Glinda, however, they were taken to a room of the Castle, where Dorothy washed her face and combed her hair, and the Lion shook the dust out of his mane, and the Scarecrow patted himself into his best shape, and the Woodman polished his tin and oiled his joints.”
- Long or thick hair of a person's head.
- Part of a naval sword between the tang button and the quillon.
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(alt-of, pronunciation-spelling, slang)Eye dialect spelling of man.
“Ayy, make this right, mane, stop at the light, mane”
name
- A surname.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English mane, mayne, from Old English manu (“mane”), from Proto-West Germanic *manu, from Proto-Germanic *manō (“mane”), from Proto-Indo-European *mony-, *mon- (“neck”). Cognate with Dutch maan, manen (“mane”), German Mähne (“mane”), Danish man (“horse's mane”), Swedish man (“horse's mane”), Icelandic mön (“mane”).
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