Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Vare

Vare , noun

[Sp. vara staff, wand, Latin vara forked pole.]

A wand or staff of authority or justice. [Obsolete]
His hand a vare of justice did uphold. — Dryden

Vare , noun

(Zoology) A weasel. [Provincial English]
Collocations (1)
Vare widgeon (Zoology) , a female or young male of the smew; a weasel duck; -- so called from the resemblance of the head to that of a vare, or weasel. [Provincial English]