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A young wild boar.

In a marked emphatic manner; -- used adverbially as a direction.

A thin silk fabric used for linings, etc., in ladies' dresses.

Withering without

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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.

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

Pining; lean; withered. Dryden.

The state or quality of being withered or lean. [R.]

A follower of Marcion, a Gnostic of the second century, who adopted the Oriental notion of the two conflicting principles, and imagined that between them there existed a third power, neither wholly good nor evil, the Creator of the world and of man, and the God of the Jewish dispensation. Brande & C.…

A celebrated Rhine wine.

Designating, or pert. to, Marconi's system of wireless telegraphy; as, Marconi aërial, coherer, station, system, etc.