Mar*cid"i*ty (?), n. [LL. marciditas.] The state or quality of being
withered or lean. [R.]
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Mar"cion*ite (?), 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.
||Mar`co*brun"ner (?), n. [G. Marcobrunner.] A celebrated Rhine wine.
||Mar"cor (?), n. [L., fr. marcere to wither.] A wasting away of flesh;
||decay. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
Mar*co"sian (?), n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a Gnostic sect of the second
century, so called from Marcus, an Egyptian, who was reputed to be a
margician.
||Mar"di` gras" (?), n. [F., literally, fat Tuesday.] The last day of
||Carnival; Shrove Tuesday; -- in some cities a great day of carnival
||and merrymaking.
Mare (mâr), n. [OE. mere, AS. mere, myre, fem of AS. mearh horse, akin
to D. merrie mare, G. mähre, OHG. marah horse, meriha mare, Icel. marr
horse, OCelt. marka (Pausan. 19, 19,4), Ir. marc, W. march. Cf.
Marshal.] The female of the horse and other equine quadrupeds.
Mare, n. [AS. mara incubus; akin to OHG. & Icel. mara; cf. Pol. mora,
Bohem. mra.] (Med.) Sighing, suffocative panting, intercepted
utterance, with a sense of pressure across the chest, occurring during
sleep; the incubus; -- obsolete, except in the compound nightmare.