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n. 1. A marching back; retrocession. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) An evolution by which a body of troops change front or reverse the direction of march while retaining the same men in the front rank; also, a movement by which the rear rank becomes the front one, either with or without changing the right to the left. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A change of measures; alteration of conduct. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such countermarches and retractions as we do not willingly impute to wisdom. T. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Demarcation. ] To mark by bounds; to set the limits of; to separate; to discriminate. Wilkinson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. démarcation; pref. dé- (L. de) + marquer to mark, of German origin. See Mark. ] The act of marking, or of ascertaining and setting a limit; separation; distinction. [ 1913 Webster ]

The speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. démarche. See March, n. ] March; walk; gait. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. dh`marchos; dh^mos people + 'a`rchein to rule. ] A chief or ruler of a deme or district in Greece. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To march away. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. 1. to march a person against his will by any method. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. to carry someone against his will upside down such that each limb is held by one person. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. immarcescibilis; pref. im- not + marcescere to fade: cf. F. immarcescible. ] Unfading; lasting. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Unfadingly. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or involved in, the doctrines of Lamarckianism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Biol.) Lamarckism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Lamarck, a distinguished French naturalist. ] (Biol.) The theory that structural variations, characteristic of species and genera, are produced in animals and plants by the direct influence of physical environments, and esp., in the case of animals, by effort, or by use or disuse of certain organs. It is a discredited theory, not believed by modern biologists. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. [ F. ] The refuse matter which remains after the pressure of fruit, particularly of grapes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. marc; akin to G. mark, Icel. mörk, perh. akin to E. mark a sign. √106, 273. ] [ Written also mark. ] 1. A weight of various commodities, esp. of gold and silver, used in different European countries. In France and Holland it was equal to eight ounces. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A coin formerly current in England and Scotland, equal to thirteen shillings and four pence. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A German coin and money of account. See Mark. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ It. mercatante. See Merchant. ] A merchant. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. marcassite; cf. It. marcassita, Sp. marquesita, Pg. marquezita; all fr. Ar. marqashītha. ] (Min.) A sulphide of iron resembling pyrite or common iron pyrites in composition, but differing in form; white iron pyrites. [ 1913 Webster ]

Golden marcasite, tin. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Containing, or having the nature of, marcasite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] (Her.) A young wild boar. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. [ It. ] (Mus.) In a marked emphatic manner; -- used adverbially as a direction. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. marcidus withered, fr. marcere to wither, shrivel. ] A thin silk fabric used for linings, etc., in ladies' dresses. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A French novelist (1871-1922). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. marcescens, p. pr. of marcescere to wither, decay, fr. marcere to wither, droop: cf. F. marcescent. ] (Bot.) Withering without falling off; fading; decaying. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. marcescible. ] Liable to wither or decay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. Martius mensis Mars'month fr. Martius belonging to Mars, the god of war: cf. F. mars. Cf. Martial. ] The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days. [ 1913 Webster ]

The stormy March is come at last,
With wind, and cloud, and changing skies. Bryant. [ 1913 Webster ]

As mad as a March Hare, an old English Saying derived from the fact that March is the rutting time of hares, when they are excitable and violent. Wright. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. marche, F. marche; of German origin; cf. OHG. marcha, G. mark, akin to OS. marka, AS. mearc, Goth. marka, L. margo edge, border, margin, and possibly to E. mark a sign. √106. Cf. Margin, Margrave, Marque, Marquis. ] A territorial border or frontier; a region adjacent to a boundary line; a confine; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in English history applied especially to the border land on the frontiers between England and Scotland, and England and Wales. [ 1913 Webster ]

Geneva is situated in the marches of several dominions -- France, Savoy, and Switzerland. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lords of waste marches, kings of desolate isles. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Cf. OF. marchir. See 2d March. ] To border; to be contiguous; to lie side by side. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

That was in a strange land
Which marcheth upon Chimerie. Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

To march with, to have the same boundary for a greater or less distance; -- said of an estate. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Marched p. pr. & vb. n. Marching. ] [ F. marcher, in OF. also, to tread, prob. fr. L. marcus hammer. Cf. Mortar. ] 1. To move with regular steps, as a soldier; to walk in a grave, deliberate, or stately manner; to advance steadily. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To proceed by walking in a body or in military order; as, the German army marched into France. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cause to move with regular steps in the manner of a soldier; to cause to move in military array, or in a body, as troops; to cause to advance in a steady, regular, or stately manner; to cause to go by peremptory command, or by force. [ 1913 Webster ]

March them again in fair array. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. marche. ] 1. The act of marching; a movement of soldiers from one stopping place to another; military progress; advance of troops. [ 1913 Webster ]

These troops came to the army harassed with a long and wearisome march. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: Measured and regular advance or movement, like that of soldiers moving in order; stately or deliberate walk; steady onward movement; as, the march of time. [ 1913 Webster ]

With solemn march
Goes slow and stately by them. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

This happens merely because men will not bide their time, but will insist on precipitating the march of affairs. Buckle. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The distance passed over in marching; as, an hour's march; a march of twenty miles. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A piece of music designed or fitted to accompany and guide the movement of troops; a piece of music in the march form. [ 1913 Webster ]

The drums presently striking up a march. Knolles. [ 1913 Webster ]

To make a march, (Card Playing), to take all the tricks of a hand, in the game of euchre. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Cookery) A sauce consisting of brown sauce with mushrooms and red wine or madeira.
Syn. -- mushroom wine sauce. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. The type genus of Marchantiaceae; liverworts that reproduce asexually by gemmae and have stalked antheridiophores.
Syn. -- genus Marchantia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. A natural family of liverworts with prostrate and usually dichotomously branched thalli.
Syn. -- family Marchantiaceae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. An oder of liverworts with gametophyte differentiated internally.
Syn. -- order Marchantiales. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The vernal equinox. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who marches. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See 2d March. ] The lord or officer who defended the marches or borders of a territory. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n., fr. March, v. [ 1913 Webster ]

Marching money (Mil.), the additional pay of officer or soldier when his regiment is marching. --
In marching order (Mil.), equipped for a march. --
Marching regiment. (Mil.) (a) A regiment in active service. (b) In England, a regiment liable to be ordered into other quarters, at home or abroad; a regiment of the line. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Extremely rash; foolhardy. See under March, the month. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person living in the marches between England and Scotland or Wales. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. It. marzapane, Sp. pan, . massepain, prob. fr. L. maza frumenty (Gr. ma^za) + L. panis bread; but perh. the first part of the word is from the name of the inventor. ] A kind of sweet bread or biscuit; a cake of pounded almonds and sugar. Called also marzipan. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A warden of the marches; a marcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Under the influence of Mars; courageous; bold. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. marcidus, fr. marcere to wither, pine. ] 1. Pining; lean; withered. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Characterized by emaciation, as a fever. Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. marciditas. ] The state or quality of being withered or lean. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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 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. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ G. Marcobrunner. ] A celebrated Rhine wine. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. a. [ After Guglielmo Marconi (b. 1874), Italian inventor. ] Designating, or pert. to, Marconi's system of wireless telegraphy; as, Marconi aerial, coherer, station, system, etc. [ archaic ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]