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One whose course of life has some marked characteristic (expressed by an adjective); as, a free liver. Fast liver, one who lives in an extravagant and dissipated way. -- Free liver, Good liver, one given to the pleasures of the table. -- Loose liver, a person who lives a somewhat dissolute life.

The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according to the description given in an entry, plan, map, etc. Burrill. Bouvier.

ess of felling trees, cutting them into logs, and transporting the logs to sawmills or to market.

rom the place where they were felled to the stream which floats them to the sawmill or to market. In this labor neighboring camps of loggers combine to assist each other in turn. Longfellow. [U.S.]

he principal street in London for banks and the offices of note brokers; hence, the money market and interest of London.

od. [Archaic] Queen Elizabeth being a lone woman. Collection of Records (1642). A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear. Shak.

uthority. They which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them. Mark x. 42.

lots, to determine an event, or make a decision, by drawing one thing from a number whose marks are concealed from the drawer. -- To pay scot and lot, to pay taxes according to one's ability. See Scot.

sidered by seamen as only fit to be used by lubbers. Totten. -- Lubber's line, point, or mark, a line or point in the compass case indicating the head of the ship, and consequently the course which the ship is steering.

Bright with the radiance of intellect; not darkened or confused by delirium or madness; marked by the regular operations of reason; as, a lucid interval.

A mark cut into the ear of an animal to identify it; an earmark.

To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market. [U.S.]

Anything crescent-shaped; a crescent-shaped part or mark; a lunula, a lune.

Brilliancy; splendor; brightness; glitter. The right mark and very true luster of the diamond. Sir T. More. The scorching sun was mounted high, In all its luster, to the noonday sky. Addison.

A substance of a strongly marked yellow color, extracted from the yelk of eggs, and from the tissue of the corpus luteum.

the fornix of the brain; -- so called from the arrangement of the lines with which it is marked in the human brain.

The resolution or favorable termination of a disease, coming on gradually and not marked by abrupt change.

Marked like macle (chiastolite).

A short, straight, horizontal mark [-], placed over vowels to denote that they are to be pronounced with a long sound; as, a, in dame; e, in seam, etc.

Marked with spots or maculæ; blotched; hence, defiled; impure; as, most maculate thoughts. Shak.