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,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 state or condition of being marshy.

An old dance with swords and bucklers; a sword dance.

Having the nose of medium width; between leptorhine and platyrhine.

It seems to me; I think. See Me. [R., except in poetry.] In all ages poets have been had in special reputation, and, methinks, not without great cause. Spenser.

Hiding; skulking; cowardly. [Colloq.] [Written also meaching and meeching.]

To think wrongly. [Obs.] "Adam misthought of her." Milton.

The Marsipobranchiata.

The light of the moon.

A person engaged in illicit distilling; -- so called because the work is largely done at night. [Cant, U.S.]

Illicit distilling. [Slang or Colloq., U. S.]

Moonlight. [Colloq.] I went to see them in a moonshiny night. Addison.

strong narcotic properties, and much used as an anodyne; -- called also morphia, and morphina.

A morbid condition produced by the excessive or prolonged use of morphine.

Of or pertaining to Moschus, a genus including the musk deer.

ly vases of great beauty and delicacy used by the luxurious in Rome as wine cups; as, murrhine vases, cups, vessels. Murrhine glass, glassware made in imitation of murrhine vases and cups.

Murrhine.

Servants of the priests and Levites in the menial services about the tabernacle and temple.

See Niding.

om any point of departure or of reckoning, measured on a meridian; -- opposed to Ant: southing.