March Hare.

Mad as a March hare. Hares in March are very wild; it is their rutting time. (See Hare.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Marabuts
Maranatha (Syriac, the Lord will comei.e. to execute judgment)
Maravedi
Marbles
Marcassin (The Prince)
Marcella
Marcellina
Marcellus (in Dibdin’s Bibliomania, a romance,)
March
March Dust
March Hare
Marches (boundaries)
Marchaundes Tale (in Chaucer)
Marching Watch
Marchington (Staffordshire)
Marchioness (The)
Marchpane
Marcionites
Marck (William de la)
Marcley Hill (Herefordshire)
Marcos de Obregon