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To make search after; to investigate or examine; to ensearch. [Obs.]

ire having functions corresponding to those of a justice of the peace. [Written also eirenarch.]

The rule of the judges over Israel. Samson, Jephthah, Gideon, and other heroes of the kritarchy. Southey.

A genus of coniferous trees, having deciduous leaves, in fascicles (see Illust. of Fascicle).

Of or pertaining to the larch. Keats.

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.

Extremely rash; foolhardy. See under March, the month. Sir W. Scott.

A warden of the marches; a marcher.

One who marches.

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.

,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 regi…

The wife or the widow of a marquis; a woman who has the rank and dignity of a marquis. Spelman.

A person living in the marches between England and Scotland or Wales.

A kind of sweet bread or biscuit; a cake of pounded almonds and sugar. [Obs.]marzipan Shak.

The mother and ruler of a family or of her descendants; a ruler by maternal right.

Of or pertaining to a matriarch; governed by a matriarch.

The office or jurisdiction of a matriarch; a matriarchal form of government.

A form of corbel arch employing regular small corbels.

sovereign; the highest ruler; an emperor, king, queen, prince, or chief. He who reigns Monarch in heaven, ... upheld by old repute. Milton.

Pertaining to a monarch; suiting a monarch; sovoreign; regal; imperial. Satan, whom now transcendent glory raised Above his fellows, with monarchal pride. Milton.