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Any animal which eats flesh, especially any carnivorous marsupial.

A flesh-eating animal, especially any one of the carnivorous marsupials.

n a sconce; to imprison; to insconce. [Obs.] Immure him, sconce him, barricade him in 't. Marston.

See Marsh rosemary, under Marsh.

A rich slimy deposit in salt marshes and along the seashore, sometimes used as a manure; -- called also sea ooze.

ny plant of the genus Carex, perennial, endogenous herbs, often growing in dense tufts in marshy places. They have triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grasslike leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib. There are several hundred species.

Secret. [Obs.] Marston.

s the seneschal had the dispensing of justice, and was given high military commands. Then marshaled feast Served up in hall with sewers and seneschale. Milton. Philip Augustus, by a famous ordinance in 1190, first established royal courts of justice, held by the officers called baitiffs, or seneschals, who acted as the…

ke. His sensibilities seem rather to have been those of patriotism than of wounded pride. Marshall.

An adherent, or a band or sect of adherents. "Coleridge and his sequela." G. P. Marsh.

Shaking or trembling; as, a shaky spot in a marsh; a shaky hand. Thackeray.

ulder blame; to shoulder a debt. As if Hercules Or burly Atlas shouldered up their state. Marston. Right shoulder arms (Mil.), a position in the Manual of Arms which the piece is placed on the right shoulder, with the lock plate up, and the muzzle elevated and inclined to the left, and held as in the illustration.…

Free from sickness. [R.] Give me long breath, young beds, and sickless ease. Marston.

; true. Full many fine men go upon my score, as simple as I stand here, and I trust them. Marston. Must thou trust Tradition's simple tongue Byron. To be simple is to be great. Emerson.

f two planets happening according to the succession of the signs, as Saturn in Aries, and Mars in the same degree of Gemini. -- Sinister base, Sinister chief. See under Escutcheon.

A mower. [Obs.] Marston.

own violently. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.] How did you kill him Slat[t]ed his brains out. Marston.

To enslave. Marston.

Easily broken through; boggy; marshy; swampy. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.] Bartlett.

A reprimand; a snub. [Obs.] Marston.