mane

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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.

2. 2
   noun

   long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck

3. 3
   noun

   growth of hair covering the scalp of a human being

4. 4
   noun

   Long or thick hair of a person's head.

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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