{ Mar`ca*sit"ic (?), Mar`ca*sit"ic*al (?), } a. Containing, or having
the nature of, marcasite.
Mar*cas"sin (?), n. [F.] (Her.) A young wild boar.
||Mar*ca"to (?), a. [It.] (Mus.) In a marked emphatic manner; -- used
||adverbially as a direction.
Mar"cel*ine (?), n. [F., fr. L. marcidus withered, fr. marcere to
wither, shrivel.] A thin silk fabric used for linings, etc., in ladies'
dresses.
Mar*ces"cent (?), 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.
Mar*ces"ci*ble (?), a. [Cf. F. marcescible.] Liable to wither or decay.
March (?), 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.
The stormy March is come at last, With wind, and cloud, and
changing skies.
Bryant.
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.
March, 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.
Geneva is situated in the marches of several dominions -- France,
Savoy, and Switzerland.
Fuller.
Lords of waste marches, kings of desolate isles.
Tennyson.
March, v. i. [Cf. OF. marchir. See 2d March.] To border; to be
contiguous; to lie side by side. [Obs.]
That was in a strange land Which marcheth upon Chimerie.
Gower.
To march with, to have the same boundary for a greater or less
distance; -- said of an estate.
March, 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.
2. To proceed by walking in a body or in military order; as, the German
army marched into France.
March, 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.
March them again in fair array.
Prior.
March, n. [F. marche.] 1. The act of marching; a movement of soldiers
from one stopping place to another; military progress; advance of
troops.
These troops came to the army harassed with a long and wearisome
march.
Bacon.
2. Hence: Measured and regular advance or movement, like that of
soldiers moving in order; stately or deliberate walk; steady onward
movement.
With solemn march Goes slow and stately by them.
Shak.
This happens merely because men will not bide their time, but will
insist on precipitating the march of affairs.
Buckle.
3. The distance passed over in marching; as, an hour's march; a march
of twenty miles.
4. A piece of music designed or fitted to accompany and guide the
movement of troops; a piece of music in the march form.
The drums presently striking up a march.
Knolles.
To make a march, (Card Playing), to take all the tricks of a hand, in
the game of euchre.
March"er (?), n. One who marches.
March"er, n. [See 2d March.] The lord or officer who defended the
marches or borders of a territory.
{ Mar"chet (?), Mer"chet (?) }, n. [LL. marcheta; of uncertain origin.]
In old English and in Scots law, a fine paid to the lord of the soil by
a tenant upon the marriage of one the tenant's daughters.
March"ing (?), a. & n., fr. March, v.
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.
Mar"chion*ess (?), 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.
March"-mad` (?), a. Extremely rash; foolhardy. See under March, the
month. Sir W. Scott.
March"man (?), n. A person living in the marches between England and
Scotland or Wales.
March"pane` (?), 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. [Obs.] Shak.
March"-ward` (?), n. A warden of the marches; a marcher.
Mar"cian (?), a. Under the influence of Mars; courageous; bold. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Mar"cid (?), a. [L. marcidus, fr. marcere to wither, pine.] 1. Pining;
lean; withered. Dryden.