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n. [ See Mars. ] 1. The god Mars. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Battle; contest. [ Obs. ] Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To buy or sell in, or as in, a mart. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To sell and mart your officer for gold
To undeservers. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Contr. fr. market. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A market. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where has commerce such a mart . . . as London? Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A bargain. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. & Sp. martagon, It. martagone. ] (Bot.) A lily (Lilium Martagon) with purplish red flowers, found in Europe and Asia. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ F. marteler, fr. martel, marteau, hammer, a dim. fr. L. martulus, marculus, dim. of marcus hammer. Cf. March to step. ] To make a blow with, or as with, a hammer. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ OF., hammer of iron. ] A weapon resembling a hammer, often having one side of the head pointed; -- used by horsemen in the Middle Ages to break armor. Fairholt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] A small hammer used by marble workers and sculptors. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ It. martello hammer. The name was orig. given to towers erected on the coasts of Sicily and Sardinia for protection against the pirates in the time of Charles the Fifth, which prob. orig. contained an alarm bell to be struck with a hammer. See Martel. ] (Fort.) A building of masonry, generally circular, usually erected on the seacoast, with a gun on the summit mounted on a traversing platform, so as to be fired in any direction. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The English borrowed the name of the tower from Corsica in 1794. [ 1913 Webster ]