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A small design etched on the margin of a plate and supposed to be removed after the earliest proofs have been taken; also, any feature distinguishing a particular stage of the plate.

HAving ripple marks.

Any elevated object on land which serves as a guide to mariners; a beacon; a landmark visible from the sea, as a hill, a tree, a steeple, or the like. Shak.

See 1st Hag, 4.

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.

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.

A mark indicating the height to which water has risen, or at which it has stood; the usual limit of high or low water.

A mark to guide in traveling.

A mark of dishonor on an escutcheon.

there; widely. He went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze abroad the matter. Mark i. 45. To be abroad. (a) To be wide of the mark; to be at fault; as, you are all abroad in your guess. (b) To be at a loss or nonplused.

Marked by, or spent in, abstinence; as, an abstemious life. "One abstemious day." Pope.

A mark or character used in writing, and serving to regulate the pronunciation; esp.: (a) a mark to indicate the nature and place of the spoken accent; (b) a mark to indicate the quality of sound of the vowel marked; as, the French accents.

To mark with the written accent.

A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.

sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark.

A unit; a single point or spot on a card or die; the card or die so marked; as, the ace of diamonds.

Marked with fine irregular streaks as if scratched by a needle. Lindley.

g; clever; shrewd; -- opposed to Ant: dull or Ant: stupid; as, an acute observer; acute remarks, or reasoning.

y; as, John Doe, Esq.; Richard Roe, Gent.; Robert Dale, Mason; Thomas Way, of New York; a mark of distinction; a title.