All 4 Uses of
mane
in
The Jungle Book
- Sea Catch was fifteen years old, a huge gray fur seal with almost a mane on his shoulders, and long, wicked dog teeth.
p. 116.7mane = long coarse hair around the neck and shoulders
- 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.
p. 136.4mane = ring of long coarse hair around the neck and shoulders
- By daylight Kotick's mane was standing on end and his temper was gone where the dead crabs go.
p. 139.2
- 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.
p. 143.9 *mane = coarse hair
Definition:
long coarse hair such as that which grows around a lion's head or on the back of a horse's neck