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Full of light; bright. [R.] "Lightful presence." Marston.

To yield; to stop; to cease. [Obs. or Scot.] Marsion.

Eagerly desirous. See Lickerish. [Obs.] Marston.

A perennial plant of the genus Saururus (S. cernuus), growing in marshes, and having white flowers crowded in a slender terminal spike, somewhat resembling in form a lizard's tail; whence the name. Gray.

ons." G. Eliot. I hate these figures in locution, These about phrases forced by ceremony. Marston.

Noisy. [Obs.] Marsion.

Luciferian; satanic. [Obs.] Marston.

Inclined to be lazy. Marston. -- Lusk"*ish*ly, adv. -Lusk"ish*ness, n. [Obs.] Spenser.

A group of Mammalia, including the marsupials and monotremes; - - so called because the corpus callosum is rudimentary.

genus of marsupials including the common kangaroo.

es; -- opposed to microsporangium. Both are found in the genera Selaginella, Isoctes, and Marsilia, plants remotely allied to ferns.

To magnify or extol. [Obs.] Marston.

ance capable of engendering disease; esp., an unhealthy exhalation from certain soils, as marshy or wet lands, producing fevers; miasma.

Evil; wicked; bad. [Obs.] Marston.

To spoil; to ruin. "It makes us, or it mars us." "Striving to mend, to mar the subject." Shak.

Under the influence of Mars; courageous; bold. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A kind of large yellow rose. [Written also Marshal Niel.]

A Marsh. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A military officer of high rank; a marshal. [Obs.]

Low, wet ground; a marsh; a fen; a bog; a moor. [Archaic] Milton. Tennyson.