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- English Word March-mad Definition Extremely rash; foolhardy. See under March, the month.
- English Word March-ward Definition A warden of the marches; a marcher.
- English Word Marched Definition of March
- English Word Marcher Definition The lord or officer who defended the marches or borders of a territory.
- English Word Marchet Definition Alt. of Merchet
- English Word Marching Definition of March
- English Word Marching Definition a. & n., fr. March, v.
- English Word Marchioness Definition The wife or the widow of a marquis; a woman who has the rank and dignity of a marquis.
- English Word Marchman Definition A person living in the marches between England and Scotland or Wales.
- English Word Marchpane Definition A kind of sweet bread or biscuit; a cake of pounded almonds and sugar.
- English Word Marcian Definition Under the influence of Mars; courageous; bold.
- English Word Marcid Definition Pining; lean; withered.
- English Word Marcid Definition Characterized by emaciation, as a fever.
- English Word Marcidity Definition The state or quality of being withered or lean.
- English Word Marcionite Definition A follower of Marcion, a Gnostic of the second century, who adopted the Oriental notion of the two conflicting principles, and imagined that between them there existed a third power, neither wholly good nor evil, the Creator of the world and of man, and the God of the Jewish dispensation.
- English Word Marcobrunner Definition A celebrated Rhine wine.
- English Word Marcor Definition A wasting away of flesh; decay.
- English Word Marcosian Definition One of a Gnostic sect of the second century, so called from Marcus, an Egyptian, who was reputed to be a margician.
- English Word Mardi gras Definition The last day of Carnival; Shrove Tuesday; -- in some cities a great day of carnival and merrymaking.
- English Word Mare Definition The female of the horse and other equine quadrupeds.
- English Word Mare Definition Sighing, suffocative panting, intercepted utterance, with a sense of pressure across the chest, occurring during sleep; the incubus; -- obsolete, except in the compound nightmare.
- English Word Mare's-nest Definition A supposed discovery which turns out to be a hoax; something grosaly absurd.
- English Word Mare's-tail Definition A long streaky cloud, spreading out like a horse's tail, and believed to indicate rain; a cirrus cloud. See Cloud.
- English Word Mare's-tail Definition An aquatic plant of the genus Hippuris (H. vulgaris), having narrow leaves in whorls.
- English Word Marechal Niel Definition A kind of large yellow rose.
- English Word Mareis Definition A Marsh.
- English Word Marena Definition A European whitefish of the genus Coregonus.
- English Word Mareschal Definition A military officer of high rank; a marshal.
- English Word Margarate Definition A compound of the so-called margaric acid with a base.
- English Word Margaric Definition Pertaining to, or resembling, pearl; pearly.