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An under or deputy marshal.

In a summary manner.

One who summarized.

To comprise in, or reduce to, a summary; to present briefly. Chambers.

ed into a narrow compass, or into few words; short; brief; concise; compendious; as, a summary statement of facts.

A mark made on the molds of a ship, when building, to show where the angles of the timbers are to be placed. [Written also sirmark.]

A mark of ownership cut on the bill or swan. [Eng.] Encyc. Brit.

See Simar.

The American larch; also, the larch of Oregon and British Columbia (Larix occidentalis). See Hackmatack, and Larch.

A shrub or tree supposed to be the tamarisk, or perhaps some kind of heath. [Obs.] He shall be like tamaric in the desert, and he shall not see when good shall come. Jer. xvii. 6 (Douay version).

Any one of several species of small squirrel-like South American monkeys of the genus Midas, especially M. ursulus.

A leguminous tree (Tamarindus Indica) cultivated both the Indies, and the other tropical countries, for the sake of its shade, and for its fruit. The trunk of the tree is lofty and large, with wide- spreading branches; the flowers are in racemes at the ends of the branches. The leaves are small and finely pinnated.…

Any shrub or tree of the genus Tamarix, the species of which are European and Asiatic. They have minute scalelike leaves, and small flowers in spikes. An Arabian species (T. mannifera) is the source of one kind of manna. Tamarisk salt tree, an East Indian tree (Tamarix orientalis) which produces an incrustation of salt…

archive chamber was discovered there in 1887. A collection of tablets (called the Tel-el-Amarna, or the Amarna, tablets) was found here, forming the Asiatic correspondence (Tel-el-Amarna letters) of Amenophis IV. and his father, Amenophis III., written in cuneiform characters. It is an important source of our knowledge…

A hideous or confused noise; an uproar. [Obs.] Howell.

A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law.

Lying or being beyond the sea. Howell.

ed blue by the sodium polysulphides made in the fusion. Also used adjectively. Green ultramarine, a green pigment obtained as a first product in the manufacture of ultramarine, into which it is changed by subsequent treatment. -- Ultramarine ash or ashes (Paint.), a pigment which is the residuum of lapis lazuli after…

To annul the marriage of; to divorce. Milton.

To degrade from the rank of a martyr. [Obs.] Fuller.