Definition of "hare" []

• Any of various mammals of the family Leporidae, especially of the genus Lepus, similar to rabbits but having longer ears and legs and giving birth to active, furred young. (noun)
• To move hurriedly, as if hunting a swift quarry. (verb-intransitive)

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• "All those pictures are beautiful, but he picture of the beagles and the hare is my favorite."
• "And now I'm reading John Green's marvelous An Abundance of Katherines, and am pleased to have found another child for whom fables were not all that: "if only he'd known that the story of the tortoise and the hare is about more than a tortoise and a hare, he might have saved himself considerable trouble.""
• "OF all the animals in the forest the hare is the wisest, and the animals all know this."