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  • English Word Marseillaise Definition A native or inhabitant of Marseilles.
  • English Word Marseilles Definition A general term for certain kinds of fabrics, which are formed of two series of threads interlacing each other, thus forming double cloth, quilted in the loom; -- so named because first made in Marseilles, France.
  • English Word Marsh Definition A tract of soft wet land, commonly covered partially or wholly with water; a fen; a swamp; a morass.
  • English Word Marsh marigold Definition A perennial plant of the genus Caltha (C. palustris), growing in wet places and bearing bright yellow flowers. In the United States it is used as a pot herb under the name of cowslip. See Cowslip.
  • English Word Marshal Definition Originally, an officer who had the care of horses; a groom.
  • English Word Marshal Definition An officer of high rank, charged with the arrangement of ceremonies, the conduct of operations, or the like
  • English Word Marshal Definition One who goes before a prince to declare his coming and provide entertainment; a harbinger; a pursuivant.
  • English Word Marshal Definition One who regulates rank and order at a feast or any other assembly, directs the order of procession, and the like.
  • English Word Marshal Definition The chief officer of arms, whose duty it was, in ancient times, to regulate combats in the lists.
  • English Word Marshal Definition The highest military officer.
  • English Word Marshal Definition A ministerial officer, appointed for each judicial district of the United States, to execute the process of the courts of the United States, and perform various duties, similar to those of a sheriff. The name is also sometimes applied to certain police officers of a city.
  • English Word Marshal Definition To dispose in order; to arrange in a suitable manner; as, to marshal troops or an army.
  • English Word Marshal Definition To direct, guide, or lead.
  • English Word Marshal Definition To dispose in due order, as the different quarterings on an escutcheon, or the different crests when several belong to an achievement.
  • English Word Marshaled Definition of Marshal
  • English Word Marshaler Definition One who marshals.
  • English Word Marshaling Definition of Marshal
  • English Word Marshaling Definition The act of arranging in due order.
  • English Word Marshaling Definition The arrangement of an escutcheon to exhibit the alliances of the owner.
  • English Word Marshalled Definition of Marshal
  • English Word Marshalling Definition of Marshal
  • English Word Marshalsea Definition The court or seat of a marshal; hence, the prison in Southwark, belonging to the marshal of the king's household.
  • English Word Marshalship Definition The office of a marshal.
  • English Word Marshbanker Definition Alt. of Marsebanker
  • English Word Marshiness Definition The state or condition of being marshy.
  • English Word Marshy Definition Resembling a marsh; wet; boggy; fenny.
  • English Word Marshy Definition Pertaining to, or produced in, marshes; as, a marshy weed.
  • English Word Marsipobranch Definition One of the Marsipobranchia.
  • English Word Marsipobranchia Definition A class of Vertebrata, lower than fishes, characterized by their purselike gill cavities, cartilaginous skeletons, absence of limbs, and a suckerlike mouth destitute of jaws. It includes the lampreys and hagfishes. See Cyclostoma, and Lamprey. Called also Marsipobranchiata, and Marsipobranchii.
  • English Word Marsupia Definition of Marsupium