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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.

A system or wireless telegraphy developed by G. Marconi, an Italian physicist, in which Hertzian waves are used in transmission and a coherer is used as the receiving instrument.

The law that the maximum good signaling distance varies directly as the square of the height of the transmitting antenna.

A Marconi wireless message.

The apparatus used in Marconi wireless telegraphy.

The theory or practice of Marconi's wireless telegraph system.

A wasting away of flesh; decay. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

One of a Gnostic sect of the second century, so called from Marcus, an Egyptian, who was reputed to be a margician.

To march back, or to march in reversed order. The two armies marched and countermarched, drew near and receded. Macaulay.

To mark by bounds; to set the limits of; to separate; to discriminate. Wilkinson.

r of ascertaining and setting a limit; separation; distinction. The speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable. Burke.

March; walk; gait. [Obs.]

To march away. [Obs.]

Unfading; lasting. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Unfadingly. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Pertaining to, or involved in, the doctrines of Lamarckianism.

Lamarckism.