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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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4,307 words match “MAR”

MARCHPANE n.
A kind of sweet bread or biscuit; a cake of pounded almonds and sugar. [Obs.]marzipan Shak.
MARCIAN a.
Under the influence of Mars; courageous; bold. [Obs.] Chaucer.
MARCID a. 2 definitions
Pining; lean; withered. Dryden.
MARCIDITY n.
The state or quality of being withered or lean. [R.]
MARCIONITE n.
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.…
MARCOBRUNNER n.
A celebrated Rhine wine.
MARCONI a.
Designating, or pert. to, Marconi's system of wireless telegraphy; as, Marconi aërial, coherer, station, system, etc.
MARCONI SYSTEM n.
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.
MARCONI'S LAW n.
The law that the maximum good signaling distance varies directly as the square of the height of the transmitting antenna.
MARCONIGRAM n.
A Marconi wireless message.
MARCONIGRAPH n.
The apparatus used in Marconi wireless telegraphy.
MARCONISM n.
The theory or practice of Marconi's wireless telegraph system.
MARCOR n.
A wasting away of flesh; decay. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
MARCOSIAN n.
One of a Gnostic sect of the second century, so called from Marcus, an Egyptian, who was reputed to be a margician.
MARDI GRAS n.
The last day of Carnival; Shrove Tuesday; -- in some cities a great day of carnival and merrymaking.
MARE n. 2 definitions
the chest, occurring during sleep; the incubus; -- obsolete, except in the compound nightmare. I will ride thee o' nights like the mare. Shak.
MARE CLAUSUM n.
Lit., closed sea; hence, a body of water within the separate jurisdiction of the nation; -- opposed to open sea, the water open to all nations and over which no single nation has special control.
MARE'S-NEST n.
A supposed discovery which turns out to be a hoax; something grosaly absurd.
MARE'S-TAIL n. 2 definitions
horse's tail, and believed to indicate rain; a cirrus cloud. See Cloud. Mackerel sky and mare's-tails Make tall ships carry low sails. Old Rhyme.
MARECHAL NIEL n.
A kind of large yellow rose. [Written also Marshal Niel.]
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