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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.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English manu; cognate with German Mähne, Dutch manen, Old Norse mǫn

Related forms

maned, adjective

mane·less, adjective

un·maned, adjective

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Snowden spoke to an audience which was mane up largely of leaders of society of this section.

The plates show a faint sense of motion, though hardly noticeable, in the horse's mane and tail.

Lifeguards attribute the stinging streak in part to an unusually robust population of lion's mane jellies.

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Snowden spoke to an audience which was mane up largely of leaders of society of this section.

The plates show a faint sense of motion, though hardly noticeable, in the horse's mane and tail.

Lifeguards attribute the stinging streak in part to an unusually robust population of lion's mane jellies.

The wand itself is a simple stick, containing the hair of a unicorn's mane.

Trigger bobs his head up and down, shifts from foot to foot, his preternaturally floppy mane slapping across his forehead.

The critically endangered golden lion tamarin is named for its striking orange mane.

It's cool and moist here, and shaggy mane mushrooms sprout from the moss.

Six feet tall and sultry, with a mane of dark hair, she took the stage of.

He also patiently stands by while kids run their fingers through his mane.

The artist would long remember its black mane and bobbing head, as he would his first pony-and every other horse he ever owned.

Her salt-and-chocolate mane was hanging in an untamed pony tail.

What especially makes the shot for me is the beautiful wave in the horse's mane and forelock.

His body may be dilapidated, but his face is still handsome in a hawklike way, and crowned by an elegant gray mane.

It gets its name from its lionlike mane of orange fur.

His shoulders were square and solid, his mane of hair apparently as dark and as defiant as ever.

The arrangement of stars creates an outline of a lion's head and mane.

She angles the untame strands until my mane is plowed and parted.

They are mostly bald, but they do have some sparse hair and a thicker mane on their backs.

Spector's mane has always been a heavyweight contender.

Their muzzle is white, and they don an erect and dark mane that lines their large head and neck.

With his square-jawed portly good looks, flowing mane and scarlet-silk-lined suits, he was at once leonine and bearish.

The iconic mane of a lion has always been a mystery to biologists.

Meyerhoff, a loud, friendly bear of a man with a thick mane of tousled hair.

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World English Dictionary

mane (meɪn)

—n
1.	the long coarse hair that grows from the crest of the neck in such mammals as the lion and horse
2.	long thick human hair

[Old English manu; related to Old High German mana, Old Norse mön, and perhaps to Old English mene and Old High German menni necklace]

maned

—*adj*

'maneless

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

mane

O.E. manu "mane," related to mene "necklace," from P.Gmc. *mano (cf. O.N. mön, O.Fris. mana, M.Du. manen, Ger. Mähne "mane"), perhaps from PIE *men- "to stand out, project" (cf. L. eminere "to stand out," mons "mountain," Skt. manya "nape of the neck," L. monile "necklace," O.Ir. muin "neck,"

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Welsh mwnwgl "neck," mwng "mane").

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