mane

[ meyn ]
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noun
  1. the long hair growing on the back of or around the neck and neighboring parts of some animals, as the horse or lion.

  2. Informal. (on a human being) a head of distinctively long and thick or rough hair.

Origin of mane

1
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

  • But romantically, there was still no indication of the jungle-maned Casanova to come.

    The Love Guru | Sean Macaulay | September 13, 2009 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • He waited and watched, and, when the black-maned 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-maned horse of wrought iron.

  • The head was white-maned, leonine, with handsome florid features and sharp blue eyes.

    The Sensitive Man | Poul William Anderson
  • This monster has a maned neck, resembling a horse, a back of a grey colour, the belly inclining to white.

    Mythical Monsters | Charles Gould
  • There was a lion, a great, black-maned lion, in the New York zoo.

    The Spell of the White Sturgeon | James Arthur Kjelgaard

British Dictionary definitions for mane

mane

/ (meɪn) /


noun
  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

Origin of mane

1
Old English manu; related to Old High German mana, Old Norse mön, and perhaps to Old English mene and Old High German menni necklace

Derived forms of mane

  • maned, adjective
  • maneless, adjective

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