Marchet
{ Mar″chet (?), Mer″chet (?) }, n. [LL. marcheta; of uncertain origin.] In old English and in Scots law, a fine paid to the lord of the soil by a tenant upon the marriage of one...
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Marching
March″ing (?), a. & n., fr. March, v.Marching money(Mil.), the additional pay of officer or soldier when his regiment is marching. — In marching order(Mil.), equipped for a marc...
Marchioness
Mar″chion‐ess (?), n. [LL. marchionissa, fr. marchio a marquis. See Marquis.] The wife or the widow of a marquis; a woman who has the rank and dignity of a marquis. Spelman.
Marchman
March″man (?), n. A person living in the marches between England and Scotland or Wales.
Marchpane
March″pane′ (?), n. [Cf. It. marzapane,Sp. pan,. massepain, prob. fr. L. maza frumenty (Gr. μα̑ζα) + L. panis bread; but perh. the first part of the word is from the name of the...
Marcian
Mar″cian (?), a. Under the influence of Mars; courageous; bold. Chaucer.
Marcid
Mar″cid (?), a. [L. marcidus, fr. marcere to wither, pine.] 1. Pining; lean; withered. Dryden.2. Characterized by emaciation, as a fever. Harvey.
Marcidity
Mar‐cid″i‐ty (?), n. [LL. marciditas.] The state or quality of being withered or lean.
Marcionite
Mar″cion‐ite (?), n.(Eccl. Hist) A follower of Marcion, a Gnostic of the second century, who adopted the Oriental notion of the two conflicting principles, and imagined that bet...
Marcobrunner
‖Mar′co‐brun″ner (?), n. [G. Marcobrunner.] A celebrated Rhine wine.
Marconi
Mar‐co″ni (?), a. [After Guglielmo Marconi (b. 1874), Italian inventor.] Designating, or pert. to, Marconi's system of wireless telegraphy; as, Marconi aërial, coherer, station,...
Marconi system
Mar‐co″ni system (?). (Elec.) A system or wireless telegraphy developed by G. Marconi, an Italian physicist, in which Hertzian waves are used in transmission and a coherer is us...
Marconi's law
Mar‐co″ni's law (?). (Wireless Teleg.) The law that the maximum good signaling distance varies directly as the square of the height of the transmitting antenna.
Marconigram
Mar‐co″ni‐gram (?), n. [Marconi + -gram.] A Marconi wireless message.
Marconigraph
Mar‐co″ni‐graph (?), n. [Marconi + -graph.] The apparatus used in Marconi wireless telegraphy.
Marconism
Mar‐co″nism (?), n. The theory or practice of Marconi's wireless telegraph system.
Marcor
‖Mar″cor (?), n. [L., fr. marcere to wither.] A wasting away of flesh; decay. Sir T. Browne.
Marcosian
Mar‐co″sian (?), n.(Eccl. Hist.) One of a Gnostic sect of the second century, so called from Marcus, an Egyptian, who was reputed to be a margician.
Mardi gras
‖Mar″di′ gras″ (?), n. The last day of Carnival; Shrove Tuesday; — in some cities a great day of carnival and merrymaking.
Mare
Mare (mâr), n. [OE. mere, AS. mere, myre, fem of AS. mearh horse, akin to D. merrie mare, G. mähre, OHG. marah horse, meriha mare, Icel. marr horse, OCelt. marka (Pausan. 19, 19...
Mare (2)
Mare, n. [AS. mara incubus; akin to OHG. & Icel. mara; cf. Pol. mora, Bohem. můra.] (Med.) Sighing, suffocative panting, intercepted utterance, with a sense of pressure across t...
Mare clausum
‖Ma″re clau″sum (?). (Internat. Law) Lit., closed sea; hence, a body of water within the separate jurisdiction of the nation; — opposed to open sea, the water open to all nation...
Mare's-nest
Mare's″–nest′ (?), n. A supposed discovery which turns out to be a hoax; something grossly absurd.
Mare's-tail
Mare's″–tail′ (?), n. 1. A long streaky cloud, spreading out like a horse's tail, and believed to indicate rain; a cirrus cloud. See Cloud.Mackerel sky and mare's-tailsMake tall...
Marechal Niel
Mare″chal Niel″ (?). A kind of large yellow rose. [Written also Marshal Niel.]
Mareis
Mar″eis (?), n. A Marsh. Chaucer.
Marena
Ma‐re″na (?), n. [NL. Salmo maraena, G. maräne, moräne; — so called from Lake Morin, in the March of Brandenburg, in Prussia.] (Zoöl.) A European whitefish of the genus Coregonus.