hare
hare (her, har)
noun pl. hares or hare
any of a large group of swift mammals (order Lagomorpha) of the same family (Leporidae) as the rabbits, with long ears, soft fur, a cleft upper lip, a short tail, and long, powerful hind legs: it differs from a rabbit in that it is larger, does not burrow, and has furry, active young
Etymology: ME < OE hara, akin to Ger hase < IE *as-, gray (hence, lit., the gray animal, euphemism for a taboo name) > L canus, hoary
intransitive verb hared, har′·ing
Brit., Informal to run fast or go hurriedly: with off, away, about, etc.
Possessives
- ear: A hare's ears are longer than a rabbits and have black tips.
Converse of object
- jug: When you land on a hare square, and have paid for your move, you perform an action known as jugging the hare.
- hunt: Each outcry of the hunted hare A fiber from the brain does tear.
- chase: The enamel carried a scene of hunting dogs chasing a hare.
- cull: Many areas of Eastern England already have to cull hares by shooting.
- kill: Going onto land without permission to kill hares with dogs is poaching which has always been illegal.
- conserve: Efforts to conserve the hare should focus on increasing survival of adults and leverets.
Adjective modifier
- brown: The brown hare is a familiar sight on farmland.
- Irish: Irish hare is also recorded from the rougher grasslands.
- illegal: The system should only be used for ongoing illegal hare coursing incidents where people feel intimidated or threatened.
- dead: No elephants are dead, not even a dead hare or rabbit.
Modifies a noun
- coursing: Mr Barnett agreed hare coursing was a problem in the local area.
- courser: I have illegal hare coursers on my land every weekend, what can I do?
- hunting: Hare hunting with packs of hounds was among the oldest field sports in Europe.
- lip: She is shy to go outside - it's the hare lip " , Vieng's mother told me.
- shooting: We are also very keen to receive information about hare shooting.
- population: Locally, the extent of the hare population is unknown.
Noun used with modifier
For greatness is only the drayhorse that coaxes The built cart out; and where we go is reason. But genius is an enormous littleness, a trickling Of heart that covers alike the hare and the hunter.
Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
St. Agnes' EveöAh, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; The hare limped trembling through the frozen grass, And silent was the flock in woolly fold.
Poor is the triumph o'er the timid hare!
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