1663. Cowley, Cutter of Coleman St. I’l write it an’you will, in
shorthand, to dispatch immediately, and presently go put five
hundred marigolds in a purse for you.
Marinated, adj. (obsolete).—Transported over sea.—Grose (1785).
Marine (or Dead marine), subs. (common).—1. See quot. 1864; a
camp-candlestick (q.v.). Also (Grose) marine officer.
1864. Mark Lemon, Jest Book, p. 161. William IV seemed in a
momentary dilemma one day, when, at table with several officers, he
ordered one of the waiters to ‘take away that marine there,’
pointing to an empty bottle. ‘Your majesty!’ inquired a colonel of
marines, ‘do you compare an empty bottle to a member of our branch
of the service?’ ‘Yes,’ replied the monarch, as if a sudden thought
had struck him; ‘I mean to say it has done its duty once, and is
ready to do it again.’
1865. G. F. Berkeley, My Life etc., ii. 302. It was just as he
said; our host did wake, but seeing a bottle with wine in it,
closed his eyes, and Loraine soon made another marine.