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The quality or state of being marriageable.

Fit for, or capable of, marriage; of an age at which marriage is allowable. -- Mar"riage*a*ble*ness, n.

Being in the state of matrimony; wedded; as, a married man or woman.

One who marries.

A chestnut color; maroon.

Same as 1st Maroon.

The puffin. [Prov. Eng.] [Written also marrott, and morrot.]

The essence; the best part. It takes from our achievements . . . The pith and marrow of our attribute. Shak.

A bone containing marrow; pl. ludicrously, knee bones or knees; as, to get down on one's marrowbones, i. e., to kneel.

A rich but late variety of pea.

Of the nature of, or like, marrow.

Destitute of marrow.

Full of marrow; pithy.

A genus of bitter aromatic plants, sometimes used in medicine; hoarhound.

n) husband and wife according to the laws or customs of the place. Tell him that he shall marry the couple himself. Gay.

The metallic element iron, the symbol of which was the same as that of the planet Mars. [Archaic] Chaucer. Mars brown, a bright, somewhat yellowish, brown.

A kind of wine exported from Marsala in Sicily.

with fragrant flowers, several species of which furnish valuable fiber, and one species (Marsdenia tinctoria) affords indigo.

Of or pertaining to Marseilles, in France, or to its inhabitants. Marseillaise hymn, or The Marseillaise, the national anthem of France, popularly so called. It was composed in 1792, by Rouget de l'Isle, an officer then stationed at Strasburg. In Paris it was sung for the first time by the band of men who came from Mar…

other, thus forming double cloth, quilted in the loom; -- so named because first made in Marseilles, France.