1. Stone used in statues and elegant buildings, capable of a bright polish, and in a strong heat calcining into lime. He plies her hard, and much rain wears the Shakesp. marble. Thou marble hew'st, ere long to part with breath, And houses rear'st unmindful of thy death. Sandys. Some dry their corn infected with the brine, Then grind with marbles, and prepare to dine. Dryden. The two flat sides of two pieces of marble will more easily approach each other, between which there is nothing but water or air, than if there be a diamond between them; not that the parts of the diamond are more solid, but because the parts of water, being more easily separable, give way to the approach of the two pieces of marble. Locke. 2. Little balls supposed to be of marble, with which children play. Marbles taught them percusssion, and the laws of motion; nutcrackers the use of the leaver. Arbuth, and Pope. 3. A stone remarkable for the sculpture or inscription: as, the Oxford marbles. MARBLE. adj. 1. Made of marble. Pigmalion's fate reverst is mine, His marble love took flesh and blood, All that I worshipp'd as divine, That beauty, now 'tis understood, Appears to have no more of life, Than that whereof he fram'd his wife. Waller. 2. Variegated, or stained like marble. Shall I see far-fetched inventions? shall I labour to lay marble colours over my ruinous thoughts? or rather, though the pureness of my virgin mind be stained, let me keep the true simiplicity of my word. Sidney. The appendix shall be printed by itself, stitched, and with a marble cover. Swift. To MARBLE. v. a. [marbrer, Fr. from the noun.] To variegate, or vein like It is not fit that a king of an island should have any marches or borders but the four seas. Davies on Ireland. riol, and sulphur: with the earth alone it com- Here marcasites in various figures wait, March is drawn in tawny, with a fierce aspect, a helmet upon his head, to shew this month was dedicated to Mars. Peacham. To MARCH. v. n. [marcher, Fr. varicare, 1. To move in military form. Arphaxad. Well march we on, To give obedience where 'tis truly ow'd. Shakesp. 2. To walk in a grave, deliberate, or stately manner. Plexirtus finding that if nothing else, famine would at last bring him to destruction, thought better by humbleness to creep where by pride he Sidney. could not march. Doth York intend no harm to us, That thus he marcheth with thee arm in arm? Shakesp. Our bodies ev'ry footstep that they make, March towards death, until at last they die. Like thee, great son of Jove, like thee, 1. To put in military movement. Boyle. 2. Marbled with sage the hardd'ning cheese she press'd, And yellow butter Martin's skill profess'd. Gay. MARBLEHEARTED. adj. [marble and heart.] Cruel; insensible; hardhearted. Ingratitude! thou marblehearted fiend, More hideous, when thou shew'st thee in a child, Than the sea monster. Shakesp. King Lear. MARCASITE. 1.8. Davies. Prior. Does purpose honour to you, no less flowing Shakesp. Henry VIII. From a private gentlewoman he made me a marchioness, and from a marchioness a queen, and now he intends to crown my innocency with the glory of martyrdom. Bacon's Apopth The lady marchioness, his wife, solicited very diligently the timely preservation of her husband Clarendon, MA'RCHPANE. n. s. [massepane, Fr.] A kind of sweet bread or biscuit. Along whose ridge such bones are met, Like comfits round in marchpane set. Sidney. MA'RCID. adj. [marcidus, Lat.] Lean; pining; withered. A burning colliquative fever, the softer parts being melted away, the heat continuing its adustion upon the drier and fleshy parts, changes into Harvey. a marcid ferver. He on his own fish pours the noblest oil; Pope. MARCOUR. n. s. [marcor, Lat.] Leanness; the state of withering; waste of flesh. Cyrus marching his army for divers days over mountains of snow, the dazzling splendor of its whiteness prejudiced the sight of very many of Boyle on Colours. his soldiers. To bring in regular procession. March them again in fair array, And bid them form the happy day; The happy day design'd to wait On William's fame, and Europe's fate. MARCH. n. s. [marcher, Fr.] Prior. 1. Military movement; journey of soldiers. These troops came to the army harassed with a long and wearisome march, and cast away their arms and garments, and fought in their shirts. Bacon's War with Spain. 2. The term marcasite has been very improperly used by some for bismuth, and by others for zink: the more accurate writers however always express a substance different from either of these by it, sulphureous and metallick. The marcasite is a solid hard fossil, naturally found among the veins of ores, or in the fissures of stone: the variety of forms this mineral puts on is almost endless. There are however only three distinct species of it; one of a bright gold colour, another of a bright silver, and a third of a dead white: the silvery one seems to be peculiarly meant by the writers on the Materia Medica. Marcasite is very frequent in the mines of Cornwall, where the workmen call it mundick, but more in Germany, where they extract vitriol and sulphur from it. Hill. 4. 3. Who should command, by his Almighty nod, These chosen troops, une nscious of the road, And unacquainted with th' appointed end, Their marches to begin, and thither tend. Blackm. Grave and solemn walk. Waller was smooth, but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestick march, and energy divine. Pope. Deliberate or laborious walk. We came to the roots of the mountain, and had a very troublesome march to gain the top of it. Addison on Italy. Signals to move. The drums presently striking up a march, they make no longer stay, but forward they go directly. Knolles. The writers of minerals give the name pyrites and marcasites indifferently to the same sort of body: I restrain the name of pyrites wholly to the nodules, or those that are found lodged in strata 5. Marches, without singular. [marcu, that are separate: the marcasite is part of the matter that either constitutes the stratum, or is lodged in the perpendicular fissures Woodward. The acid salt dissolved in water is the same with oil of sulphur per campanam, and abounding much in the bowels of the earth, and particularly in marcasites, unites itself to the other ingredients of the marcasite, which are bitumen, iron, copper, nd earth, and with them compounds alum, vit Goth. meanc, Sax. marche, Fr.] ders; limits; confines. Bor They of those marches Shall be a wall sufficient to defend Our inland from the pilfering borderers. Shakesp. The English colonies were enforced to keep continual guards upon the borders and marches Davies. round them, MARE. n. s. [maɲe, Sax.] 1. The female of a horse. A pair of coursers born of heav'nly breed, Whom Circe stole from her celestial sire, By substituting mares, produc'd on earth, Whose wombs conceiv'd a more that mortal birth Dryden 2. [From mara, the name of a spirit i̇magined by the nations of the north to torment sleepers.] A kind of torpor o stagnation, which seems to press the stomach with a weight; the night hag. Mab, his merry queen by night, Bestrides young folks that lie upright, In elder times the mare that hight, MARINE. n. s. [la marine, F.] Nearchus who commanded Alexander's fleet, 1. The border; the brink; the edge; the 2. A soldier taken on shipboard to be em An airy crowd came rushing where he stood, Which fill'd the margin of the fatal flood. Dryden. 2. The edge of a page left blank, or filled with a short note. As much love in rhime, As would be cramm'd up in a sheet of paper Shakesp. All the advantage to be gathered from it is only from the evenness of its margin, the purpose will be as fully answered by keeping that under only. Sharp's Surgery. MARGINAL. adj. [marginal, Fr. from margin.] Placed, or written on the margin. We cannot better interpret the meaning of these words than pope Leo himself expoundeth them, whose speech concerning our Lord's ascension Hooker. may serve instead of a marginal gloss. What remarks you find worthy of your riper observation note with a marginal star, as being Watts. worthy of your second year's review. MARGINATED. adj. [marg natus, Lat. from margin.] Having a margin. MARGRAVE. n.s. [marck and graff, (erm.] A title of sovereignty in Gerany; in its original import, keeper of the marches or borders. MA'RIETS. n. s. [violæ marianæ.] kind of violet. Dict. MA'RIGOLD. n. s. [Mary and gold; caltha, Lat.] A yellow flower, devoted, I suppose, to the virgin. A The marigold hath a radiated discous flower; the petals i them are, for the most part, crenated, the seeds crooked an i rough; those which are uppermost long, and those within short; the leaves are long, tire, and for the most part suc culent. Miller. rical bodies. The most of flowers; as, the rose ployed in descents upon the land. MARINER. 1. s. [from mare, Lat. marinier, Fr] A seaman; a sailor. the Indies. Glanville. The merry mariners unto his word The nymphs of the mountains would be drawn, MA'RISH. n. s. [marais, Fr. meɲsc, Sax. rass; a moor. The flight was made towards Dalkeith; which When they had avenged the blood of their bro- MARK. n.s. [marc, Welsh; meanc, Sax. mercke, Dut. marque, Fr.] A token by which any thing is known. Once was proclaimed throughout all Ireland, that all men should mark their cattle with an open several mark upon their flanks or buttocks, so as if they happened to be stolen, they might appear whose they were. Spenser on Ireland. In the present form of the earth there are certain marks and indications of its first state; with which, if we compare those things that are recorded in sacred history, we may discover what Burnet. the earth was in its first original. The urine is a lixivium of the salts in a human body, and the proper mark of the state and quantity of such salts; and therefore very certain indications for the choice of diet may be taken from the state of urine. Arbuthnot on Aliments 2. A token; an impression. But cruel fate, and my more cruel wife, Dryden. At present there are scarce any marks left of a subterraneous fire; for the earth is cold and overAddison. run with grass and shrubs. 3. A proof; an evidence. As the confusion of tongues was a mark of separation, so the being of one language is a mark oʻ Bacon. union. The Argonauts sailed up the Danube, and from thence passed into the Adriatick, carrying their ship Argo upon their shoulders; a mark of great ignorance in geography among the writers of that Arbuthnot on Coins. time. Milton. 4. Notice taken. Your circle will teach you to draw truly all sphe-MA'RITAL. adj. [maritus, Lat. marital, Fr.] Pertaining to a husband; incident to a husband. and marigold. The marigold, whose courtier's face Echoes the sun, and doth unlace Her at his rise. Peacham. Cleaveland. Gay. Why am I styl'd a cook, if I'm so loath to the sea. The king was desirous that the ordinances of England and France, touching marine affairs, might be reduced into one form. Hayward. Vast multitudes of shells and other marine bodies, are found lodged in all sorts of stone. Woodward. If any one retains a wife that has been taken in It has been determined by some unpolite pro- MA'RITATED. adj. [from maritus, Lat.] 1. Performed on the sea; marine. I discoursed of a maritimal voyage, and the pas- No longer Circe could her flame disguise, At four years old cometh the mark of tooth in horses, which hath a hole as big as you may lay a pea within it; and weareth shorter and shorter every year, till at eight years old the tooth is smooth. Bacon's Nai. Hist. [Marque, Fr.] Licence of reprisals. 9. [Marc, Fr.] A sum of thirteen shillings and fourpence. We give thee for reward a thousand marks. Shakesp. Thirty of these pence make a mancuss,which some think to be all one with a mark, for that manca and manusa is translated, in ancient books by marca. Camden's Remains 103 4. To heed; to regard as valid or impor tant. Now swear and call to witness Heav'n hell, and earth, I mark it not from one That breathes beneath such complicated guilt. Smith. To MARK. v. n. To note; to take notice. Men mark when they hit, and never mark when they miss, as they do also of dreams. Bacon's Ess. Mark a little why Virgil is so much concerned to make this marriage; it is to make way for the divorce which he intended afterwards. Dryden. MARKER. n. s. [marquer, Fr. from mark.] 1. One that puts a mark on any thing. 2. One that notes, or takes notice. MARKET. n. s. [anciently written mercat, of mercatus, Lat.] 1. A publick time, and appointed place, of buying and selling. It were good that the privilege of a market were given, to enable them to their defence: for there is nothing doth sooner cause civility than many market-towns, by reason the people repairing often thither will learn civil manners. Spenser. Mistress, know yourself, down on your knees, And thank Heav'n, fasting, for a good man's love; For I must tell you friendly in your ear, Sell when you can, you are not for all markets. Shakesp. They counted our life a pastime, and our time here a market for gain. Wisd. xv. 12. If one bushel of wheat and two of barley will, in the market, be taken one for another, they are of equal worth." Locke. 2. Purchase and sale. With another year's continuance of the war, there will hardly be money left in this kingdom to turn the common markets, or pay rents. Temple. The precious weight Of pepper and Sabæan incense take, And with post-haste thy running market make, Be sure to turn the penny. Dryden's Persius. 3. Rate; price; [marché, Fr.] 'Twas then old soldiers, cover'd o'er with scars, Thought all past services rewarded well, If, to their share, at least two acres fell, Their country's frugal bounty; so of old Was blood and life at a low inarket sold. Dryden. To MARKET. v. n. To deal at market; to buy or sell; to make bargains. The bell to give notice that trade may begin in the market. Enter, go in, the marketbell is rung. Shakesp. MARKET-CROSS. n. s. [market and cross.] A cross set up where the market is held. These things you have articulated, MARKET-DAY. n. s. Shakesp. Henry IV. [market and day.] The day on which things are publickly bought and sold. Fool that I was, I thought imperial Rome, Like Mantua, where on marketdays we come, And thither orive our lambs. Dryden's Virgil. He ordered all the Lucquese to be seized that were found on a marketday in one of his frontier Addison on Italy. towns MARKET-FOLKS. n s. [market and folks.] People that come to the market. Poor marketfolks that come to sell their corn. Shakesp. MARKET-MAN. n. s. [market and man.] One who goes to the market to sell or buy. Be wary how you place your words, Talk like the vulgar sort of marketmen, That come to gather money for their corn. Shak. The marketman should act as if his master's whole estate ought to be applied to that servant's business. Swift. MARKET-MAID. n. s. [market and maid.] A woman that goes to buy or sell. You are come Shakesp. Anthony and Cleopatra. MARKET-PLACE. n. s. [market and place.] Place where the market is held. The king, thinking he had put up his sword, because of the noise, never took leisure to hear his answer, but made him prisoner, meaning the next morning to put him to death in the market-place. Sidney. The gates he order'd all to be unbarr'd, And from the marketplace to draw the guard. Dryden. Behold the marketplace with poor o'erspread, The man of Ross divides the weekly bread. Pope. MARKET-PRICE. n. s. [market and MARKET-RATE. price or rate.] The price at which any thing is currently sold. Money governs the world, and the marketprice is the measure of the worth of men as well as of fishes. L'Estrange. He that wants a vessel, rather than lose his market, will not stick to have it at the marketrate. Locke. MA'RKET-TOWN. n. s. A town that has the privilege of a stated market; not a village. Nothing doth sooner cause civility in any country than market-towns, by reason that people repairing often thither will learn civil manners of the better sort. Spenser. No, no, the pope's mitre my master Sir Roger seized, when they would have burnt him at our market-town. Gay. MA'RKETABLE. adj. [from market.] 1. Such as may be sold; such for which a buyer may be found. A plain fish, and no doubt marketable. Shakesp. 2. Current in the market. The pretorian soldiers arrived to that impudence, that after the death of Pertinax they made open sale of the empire, as if it had been of common marketable wares. Decay of Piety. To Marl is a kind of clay, which is become fatter, and of a more enriching quality, by a better fermentation, and by its having lain so deep in the earth as not to have spent or weakened its fertilizing quality by any product. Marl is supposed to be much of the nature of chalk, and is believed to be fertile from its salt and oily quality. Quincy. We understand by the term mar's simple native earths, less heavy than the boles or clays, met soft and unctuous to the touch, nor ductile while moist, dry and crumbly between the fingers, d readily diffusible in water. Hill. MARL. v. a. [from the noun.] To manure with marl. cent. Improvements by marling, liming, and draining, have been since money was at five and six per Child. Sandy land marled will bear good pease. Mort. To MARL. v. a. [from marline.] To fasten the sails with marline. Ainworth. MA'RLINE. n. s. [meaɲn, Skinner.] Long wreaths of untwisted hemp dipped in pitch, with which the ends of cables are guarded against friction. bind, Some the gall'd ropes with dawby marline Or searcloth masts with strong tarpawling coats. Dryden. MAʼRLINESPIKE.N, S. A small piece of iron for fastening ropes together, or to open the bolt rope when the sail is to be sewed in it. Bailey. MARLPIT. n.s. [marl and pit.] Pit out of which marl is dug. Several others, of different figures, were found; part of them in a rivulet, the rest in a marlpit in a field. Woodward. Abounding MA'RLY. adj. [from marl.] with marl. The oak thrives best on the richest clay, and will penetrate strangely to come at a marly bottom Mortimer. MARMALADE. n. s. [marmalade, Fr. MARMALET. Šmarmelo, Portuguese, a quince.] Marmalade is the pulp of quinces boiled into a consistence with sugar: it is subastringent, grateful to the stomach. Quincy MARMO REAN. adj. [marmoreus, Lat.] Made of marble. Dict. life; there was no third way, he had made hi so great. Bucon To take for husband or wife. You'd think it strange if I should marry her. Shakesp. As a mother shall she meet him, and receive him as a wife married of a virgin. Ecclus. xv. 2 To MA'RRY. To enter into the MARMORATION. n. s. [marmor, Lat.] | MA'RRIAGEABLE.adj. [from marriage.] Incrustation with marble. Dict. 1. Fit for wedlock; of age to be married. 3. Every wedding, one with another, produces four children, and that is the proportion of children, which any marrigeable man or woman may Graunt. be presumed shall have. I am the father of a young heiress, whom I begin to look upon as marriageable. Spectator. When the girls are twelve years old, which is the marriageable age, their parents take them home. Swift. MARMOSET. n. s. [marmouset, Fr.] A small monkey. I will instruct thee how To snare the nimble marmoset. MARMOT. MARMOTTO. } Shakesp. Tempest. n. s. [Ital.] Two noble partners with you: the old dutchess Of Norfolk, and the lady marquess Dorset. Shak MARQUISATE. n. s. [marquisat, Fr.] The seigniory of a marquis. MA'RRER. n. s. [from mar.] spoils or hurts any thing. One who You be indeed makers or marrers of all men's manners within the realm. Ascham's Schoolmaster. MARRIAGE. n. s. [mariage, Fr. mari- The French king would have the disposing of the marriage of Bretague, with an exception, that he should not marry her himself. Bacon Some married persons, even in their marriage, do be ter please God than some virgins in their state of virginity: they, by giving great example of conjugal affection, by preserving their faith unbroken, and by educating children in the fear of God, please God in a higher degree than those virgins whose piety is not answerable to their Taylor. opportunities. I propose that Palamon shall be In marriage join'd with beauteous Emily. Dryd. MARRIAGE is often used in composition. In a late draught of marriage-articles, a lady stipulated with her husband, that she shall be at liberty to patch on which side she pleases. Addison's Spectator. I by the honour of my marriage bed, After young Arthur claim this land for mine. To wed her elm; she s ous'd, about him twines Milton. MA'RRIED. adj. [from marry.] Conjugal; connubial. Thus have you shuun'd the married state. Dry. MA'RROW. n. s. [meng, Sax. smerr, Erse; smergh, Scott.] All the bones of the body which have any considerable thickness have either a large cavity, or they are spongious, and full of little cells: in both the one and the other there is an oleaginous substance, called marrow, contained in proper vesicles or membranes, like the fat: in the larger bones this fine oil, by the gentle heat of the body, is exhaled through the pores of its small bladders, and enters some narrow passages, which lead to some fine canals excavated in the substance of the bone, that the marrow may supple the fibres of the bones, and render them less apt to break. Quincy. Would he were wasted, marrow, bones, and all That from his loins no hopeful branch may spring. Shakesp The skull hath brains as a kind of marrow within it: the back bone hath one kind of marrow, and other bones of the body have another: the jaw-bones have no marrow severed, but a little pulp of marrow diffused. Pamper'd and ed fy'd their zeal With marrow puddings many a meal. Bacon. Hudibras. He bit the dart, and wrench'd the wood away, The point still buried in the marrow lay. Addison. MA'RROW, in the Scottish dialect, to this day, denotes a fellow, companion, or associate; as also equal match, he met with his marrow. [mari, husband, Fr.] Though buying and selling doth wonderful wel, Yet chopping and changing I cannot commend With theef or his marrow for fear of ill end. Tusser. MA'RROWBONE. n. s. [bone and marrow.] Shakesp. Void of narrow. To these whom death again did wed, This grave's the second marriage-bed, For though the hand of fate could force Twist soul and body a divorce, It could not sever man and wife, Because they both liv'd but one life. There on his arms and once-lov'd portrait lay, Thither our fatal marriage-bed convey. Denham. Thou shalt come into the marriage-chamber. Crashaw. Tob. vi. 16. Avaunt! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with. Shakesp. Macbeth. To MARRY. v. a. [marier, Fr. maritor, Lat.] 1. To join a man and woman, as performing the rite. Neither her worthiness, which in truth was great, nor his own suffering for her, which is wont to endear affection, could fetter his fickleness; but, before the marriage-day appointed he had taken 2. to wife Baccha, of whom she complained. Sidney. Virgin, awake! the marriage-hour is nigh. Pope. Give me, to live and die, A spotless maid, without the marriage-tie. Dryd. VOL. II. What! shall the curate controul me? Tell him, that he shall marry the couple himself. Gay's What d'ye call it. To dispose of in marriage. When Augustus consulted with Mecenas about the marriage of his daughter Julia, Mecænas took the liberty to tell him, that he must either marry his daughter to Agrippa, or take away his In their courses make that round, In meadows and in marshes found, Of them so call'd the fayry ground, Of which they have the keeping. Worms for colour and shape, alter even as the ground out of which they are got; as the marsh worm and the stag wor.n. Walton. We may see in more conterminous climates great variety in the people thereof; the up-lands In England yield strong, sinewy, hardy men; the marsh-lands, men of large and high stature. Hale. Your low meadows and marsh-lands you need not lay up till April, except the Spring be very wet, and your marshes very poachy. Mortimer's Husbandry. MARSH-MALLOW. n. s. [althæa, Lat.] It is in all respects like the mallow, but its leaves are more soft and woolly. Miller. MARSH-MARIGOld. n. s. [populago, Lat.] This flower consists of several leaves, which are placed circularly, and expand in form of a rose, in the middle of which rises the pointal, which becomes a membranaceous fruit, in which there are several cells, for the most part bent downwards, collected into little heads, and full of seeds. Miller. And set soft hyacinths with iron-blue, To shade marsh-marigolds of shining hue. Dryden. MARSHAL. n. s. [mareschal, Fr. mareschallus, low Lat. from marscale, old Fr. a word compounded of mare, which, in old French, signified a horse, and scale, a sort of servant; one that has the charge of horses.] 1. The chief officer of arms. The duke of Suffolk claims To be high steward; next the duke of Norfolk To be earl marshal. Shakesp. 2. An officer who regulates combats in the lists. Dares their pride presume against my laws As in a listed field to fight their cause? Unask'd the royal grant; no marshal by, As kingly rites require, nor judge to try. Dryden. 3. Any one who regulates rank or order at a feast, or any other assembly. Through the hall there walked to and fro A jolly yeoman, marshal of the same. Whose name was Appetite; he did bestow Roth guests and meats, whenever in they came, And knew them how to order without blame. Fairy Queen 4. Al harbinger; a pursuivant; one who MA'RTEN. Į n. s. [marle, martre, Fr. goes before a prince to declare his com-MA'RTERN. S martes, Lat] ing, and provide entertainment. Her face, when it was fairest, had been but as a marshal to lodge the love of her in his mind, which now was so well placed as it needed no help of outward harbinger. Sidney. TO MARSHAL. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To arrange; to rank in order. Multitude of jealousies, and lack of some predominant desire, that should marshal and put in order all the rest, maketh any man's heart hard to find or sound. Bacon. It is as unconceivable how it should be the directrix of such intricate motions, as that a blind man should marshal an army. Glanville's Scepsis. Anchises look'd not with so pleas'd a face, In numb'ring o'er his future Roman race, And marshalling the heroes of his name, As in their order next to light they came. Dryd. 2. To lead as an harbinger. Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going. Shakesp MARSHALLER. n. s. [from marshal.] One that arranges; one that ranks in order. 1. A large kind of weesel, whose fur is much valued. 2. [Martelet, Fr.] A kind of swallow that builds in houses; a martlet. A churchwarden, to express St. Martin's in the Fields, caused to be engraved on the communion cup a martin, a bird like a swallow, sitting upon a mole-hill between two trees. Peacham MARTIAL. adj. [martial, Fr. martialis, Lat.] 1. Warlike; fighting; given to war; brave. The office of a marshal, MARSHELDER. n. s. A gelderrose, of 3. which it is a species. MARSHR O'CK ЕТ. n. S. A species of watercresses. MARSHY, adj. [from marsh.] 1. Boggy; wet; fenny; swampy. Into my feeble breast Come gently, but not with that mighty rage Wherewith the martial troopes thou dost infest, And hearts of great heroes dost enrage. F. Queen, The queen of martials, And Mars himself conducted them. Chapman. It hath seldom been seen, that the far southern people have invaded the northern, but contrariwise; whereby it is manifest, that the northern tract of the world is the more martial region. Bacon. His subjects call'd aloud for war; But peaceful kings o'er martial people set, Each other's poize and counterbalance are. Dry. Having a warlike shew; suiting war. See His thousands, in what martial equipage Let his neck answer for it, if there is any martial law in the world. Shakesp. Henry V. They proceeded in a kind of martial justice with enemies, offering them their law before they drew their sword. Bacon Though here the marshy grounds approach your 4. Borrowing qualities from the planet fields, And there the soil a stony harvest yields Dryden. It is a distemper of such as inhabit marshy, fat, low, moist soils, near stagnating water. Arbuth 2. Produced in marshes. Feed With delicates of leaves and marshy weed. Dryd. MART. n. s. [contracted from market.] 1. A place of publick traffick. Christ could not suffer that the temple should serve for a place of mart, nor the apostle of Christ that the church should be made an inn. Hooker. If any born at Ephesus Shakesp. Ezechiel, in the description of Tyre, and the exceeding trade that it had with all the East as the only mart town, reciteth both the people with whom they commerce, and also what commodities every country yielded. Raleigh. Many come to a great mart of the best horses. Temple The French, since the accession of the Spanish monarchy, supply with cloth the best mart we had in Europe. Addison. 2. Bargain; purchase and sale. I play a merchant's part, And venture madly on a desperate mart. Shakesp. 3. Letters of mart. See MARK. To MART. v. a. [from the noun.] traffick; to buy or sell. Mars. The natures of the fixed stars are astrologically differenced by the planets, and esteemed martial or jovial according to the colours whereby they answer these planets. Brown. 5. Having parts or properties of iron, which is called Mars by the chemists. MARTIALIST. n. s. [from martial.] A warrior; a fighter. Many brave adventurous spirits fell for love of her; amongst others the high-hearted martialist, who first lost his hands, then one of his chiefest limbs, and lastly his life. Howel. MARTINGAL. n. s. [martingale, Fr.] it is a broad strap made fast to the girths under the belly of a horse, and runs between the two legs to fasten the other end, under the noseband of the bridle. Harris MARTINMAS. n. s. [martin and mass.] The feast of St. Martin: the eleventh of November, commonly corrupted to martilmass or martlemass. Martilmas leef doth bear good tacke, When countrey folke do dainties lacke. Tusser. To MARTINET. n. s. [martinet, Fr.] A This guest of Summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve, By his lov'd mansionary, that heaven's breath Smells wooingly here. No jutting frieze, Buttrice, nor coigne of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendant bed, and procreant cradle. Where they most breed and haunt, I have observ'd The air is delicate Shakesp. Macbeth. As in a drought the thirsty creatures cry, And gape upon the gather'd clouds for rain; Druden Then first the martlet meets it in the sky, And with wet wings joys all the feather'd train. MA'RTNETS. n. s. They are small lines fastened to the leetch of the sail, to bring that part of the leetch which is next to the yard-arm close up to the yard, when the sail is to be furled. Bailey. MARTYR. n. s [μáfive; martyr, Fr.] One who by his death bears witness to the truth. Prayers and tears may serve a good man's turn; if not to conquer as a soldier, yet to suifer as a martyr. King Charles. Thus could not the mouths of worthy martyrs be silenced. Brown Nearer heav'n his virtues shone more bright, Like rising flan.es expanding in their height, The martyr's glory crown'd the soldier's fight. Dryden To be a martyr signifies only to witness the truth of Christ; but the witnessing of the truth was then so generally attended with jersecution, ti st martyrdom now signifies not only to witness, but to witness by death. South's Sermo RS. The first martyr for Christianity was ence raged, in his last moments, by a vision of that divine person for whom he suffered ddai u. Socrates, Truth's early champion, martyr for his God. Them, To MARTYR. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To put to death for virtue, or true pr fession. 2. To murder; to destroy. You could not beg for grace. Hark, wretches, how I mean to marter you: This one hand yet is left to cut your threats. Shuk. If to every common futeral, By your eyes martyr'd, such grace were allow'd, Your face would wear not patches, but a cloud. Suckling. Martyr'd with the gout. MARTYRDOM. n. s. [from martyr.] The death of a martyr; the honour of a martyr; testimony born to truth by voluntary submission to death. If an infidel should pursue to death an heretick professing Christianity only for Christian profes sion sake, could we deny unto him the honour of martyrdom? Hooker Now that he hath left no higher degree o earthly honour, he intends to crown their inn Bacon cency with the glory of martyrdom. Herod, whose unblest Hand, O' what dares not jealous greatness? tor A thousand sweet babes from their mother's breast The blooms of martyrdom. |