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The art or practice of variegating in color, in imitation of marble.

Containing, or resembling, marble.

A cloth woven so as to imitate the appearance of marble; -- much used in the 15th and 16th centuries. Beck (Draper's Dict.).

A German coin and money of account. See Mark.

A merchant. [Obs.] Shak.

or common iron pyrites in composition, but differing in form; white iron pyrites. Golden marcasite, tin. [Obs.]

Containing, or having the nature of, marcasite.

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.