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Using fair speech, or uttered with fairness; bland; civil; courteous; plausible. "A marvelous fair-spoken man." Hooker.

A wonder; a marvel. [Obs.] Who hearkened ever such a ferly thing. Chaucer.

, and open toward sunset, or earlier in cloudy weather; hence the name. It is also called marvel of Peru, and afternoon lady.

eaking; hence, to silence by authority or by violence; not to allow freedom of speech to. Marvell. The time was not yet come when eloquence was to be gagged, and reason to be hood winked. Maccaulay.

To broil on a grill or gridiron. Boiling of men in caldrons, grilling them on gridirons. Marvell.

edible; surpassing belief; too extraordinary and improbable to admit of belief; unlikely; marvelous; fabulous. Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead Acts xxvi. 8.

Orizabensis, and I. tuberosa. False jalap, the root of Mirabilis Jalapa, four-o'clock, or marvel of Peru.

A story respecting saints; especially, one of a marvelous nature. Addison.

Marvel. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Something of unnatural size, shape, or quality; a prodigy; an enormity; a marvel. A monster or marvel. Chaucer.

Marvelous; strange. [Obs.]

An extravagant fiction embodying an account of some marvelous exploit or adventure.

ut from social, political, or private favor; as, he was ostracized by his former friends. Marvell.

A marvelous person or thing. [R.] Latimer.

he bounds of probability; that which is not unnatural or preternatural; -- opposed to the marvelous.

Of the nature of a prodigy; marvelous; wonderful; portentous. [Obs. or R.] Spenser. It is prodigious to have thunder in a clear sky. Sir T. Browne.

Anything so extraordinary as to excite wonder or astonishment; a marvel; as, a prodigy of learning.

specially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill in making.

public exhibition or exercise. Chaucer. In rehearsal of our Lord's Prayer. Hooker. Here's marvelous convenient place for our rehearsal. Shak. Dress rehearsal (Theater), a private preparatory performance of a drama, opera, etc., in costume.

A pointing out; manifestation; proof; demonstration. [Obs.] You may marvel why I . . . would not rather Make rash remonstrance of my hidden power Than let him be so lost. Shak.