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Shining; elegant; spruce. [Obs.] "O sweet, nitty youth." Marston.

he musk rose. It has given rise to many fine varieties, as the Lamarque, the Marechal (or Marshal) Niel, and the Cloth of gold. Most roses of this class have clustered flowers and are of vigorous growth. P. Henderson.

An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.

The pouched, or marsupial, frog of South America.

nts in old age. Milton. Him in Egerian groves Aricia bore, And nursed his youth along the marshy shore. Dryden.

A prostitute. [Obs.] Marston.

To furnish with officers; to appoint officers over. Marshall.

Above all others; particularly. [Obs.] His most only elected mistress. Marston.

A half oviparous, or an oviparous, mammal; a marsupial or monotreme.

Any American marsupial of the genera Didelphys and Chironectes. The common species of the United States is Didelphys Virginiana.

To overpower by disdain; to outface. [Obs.] Marston.

To jump over; hence, to omit; to ignore. Marston.

an ox (emblem of cuckoldom); hence, a dolt; a blockhead. Dost make a mummer of me, oxhead Marston.

Of or pertaining to marshes or fens; marshy. [R.] Paludal fever, malarial fever; -- so called because generated in marshy districts.

Marsh-inhabiting; belonging to the Paludicolæ

Of or pertaining to a marsh. Buckland.

Of or pertaining to a marsh or fen. [R.]

The morbid phenomena produced by dwelling among marshes; malarial disease or disposition.

Growing or living in marshy places; marshy.

Of or pertaining to a bog or marsh; boggy. [R.]