noun

• (countable) Any of several plant-eating mammals of the genus Lepus, similar to a rabbit, but larger and with longer ears.
  "The hare has a reputation for exciting desire. Hare soup is credited with a particular aphrodisiac value."
• (uncountable) The meat from this animal.
  "Ashe bit absent-mindedly into a piece of hare and swore mildly when he burned his tongue."
• (countable) The player in a paperchase, or hare and hounds game, who leaves a trail of paper to be followed.

verb

• (intransitive) To move swiftly.
  "But Wales somehow snaffled possession for fly-half Jones to send half-back partner Mike Phillips haring away with Stoddart in support."

verb

• (obsolete) To excite; to tease, or worry; to harry.
  "To hare and rate them thus at every turn, is not to teach them, but to vex, and torment them to no purpoſe."

adj

• (regional) Grey, hoary; grey-haired, venerable (of people).
  "a hare old man"
• (regional) Cold, frosty (of weather).
  "a hare day"