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Definition

long coarse hair such as that which grows around a lion's head or on the back of a horse's neck

Much more rarely, mane can refer to long coarse hair on another animal; or even to a person's hair.

It was a healthy male lion with a golden mane.

mane = long coarse hair growing around the head

She brushed the horse's mane and tail.

mane = long coarse hair growing on the back of the neck of a horse

He could see the mane and ears and head of his horse quite easily now.
C.S. Lewis -- The Horse and His Boy

mane = long coarse hair that grows on the back of the neck of a horse (or around the head of a lion)

Well, a lion is a little bit — only a little bit, mind you like a huge cat — with a mane.
C.S. Lewis -- The Silver Chair

mane = long coarse hair on an animal

Jody reached up a hand and took hold of Nellie's mane.
John Steinbeck -- The Red Pony

mane = long coarse hair growing on the back of the neck of a horse

Now all you do is hold onto his mane.
Peter Shaffer -- Equus

mane = long coarse hair growing on the back of the neck of a horse

Its long, slender legs were stuck out at odd angles where it had fallen and its mane was spread pearly-white on the dark leaves.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

mane = long coarse hair on the back of the neck

His curly white mane stood up with rage, and his eyes flamed, and his big dog teeth glistened, and he was splendid to look at.
Rudyard Kipling -- The Jungle Book

mane = coarse hair

Aslan raised his head and shook his mane.
C.S. Lewis -- The Last Battle

mane = a lion or horses hair

Aslan, who seemed larger than before, lifted his head, shook his mane, and roared.
C.S. Lewis -- Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia

mane = lion's hair

I was holding pump, mane, and bridle.
Ernest J. Gaines -- The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

mane = long coarse hair growing on the back of the neck of a horse

...she turned pale and bent down till her face touched the mane of the horse. You could see she felt deadly sick.
C.S. Lewis -- The Magician's Nephew

mane = hair on the neck

The lumbering horse wore a black shawl over its mane.
Jerry Spinelli -- Milkweed

mane = long coarse hair growing on the back of the neck of a horse

By daylight Kotick's mane was standing on end and his temper was...
Rudyard Kipling -- The Jungle Book

mane = ring of long coarse hair around the neck and shoulders

Sea Catch was fifteen years old, a huge gray fur seal with almost a mane on his shoulders, and long, wicked dog teeth.
Rudyard Kipling -- The Jungle Book

mane = long coarse hair around the neck and shoulders

His face was almost completely hidden by a long, shaggy mane of hair and a wild, tangled beard,
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

mane = long coarse hair

This cheered him immensely; and when he came back to Novastoshnah that summer, Matkah, his mother, begged him to marry and settle down, for he was no longer a holluschick but a full-grown sea-catch, with a curly white mane on his shoulders, as heavy, as big, and as fierce as his father.
Rudyard Kipling -- The Jungle Book

mane = ring of long coarse hair around the neck and shoulders

Why do you keep on swearing By the Lion and By the Lion's Mane? I thought you hated lions.
C.S. Lewis -- The Horse and His Boy
"By the Lion's Mane, Tarkheena, I'm nothing of the sort," said Bree indignantly.
C.S. Lewis -- The Horse and His Boy
"By the Mane, my old master Anradin!" said Bree.
C.S. Lewis -- The Horse and His Boy

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