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An adherent of the pope. [R.] Marlowe.

Obs.] [Written also portegue and portigue.] Ten thousand portagues, besides great pearls. Marlowe.

A small marline spike having generally a wooden handle, -- used in sailmaking. R. H. Dana, Ir.

To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc. To rack one's brains or wits, to exert them to the utmost for the purpose of accomplishing something.

" Bacon. But what are kings, when regiment is gone, But perfect shadows in a sunshine day Marlowe. The law of nature doth now require of necessity some kind of regiment. Hocker.

remarkable, that they Talk most who have the least to say. Prior. There is nothing left remarlable Beneath the visiting moon. Shak.

for enlistment. The king appointed his whole army to be drawn together to a rendezvous at Marlborough. Clarendon.

An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter. [Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries. Buckle. To the people . . . but a trifle, to the king but a ridicule. Foxe.

A small piece of spun yarn or marline, used to fasten the head of the sail to the spar. [Written also roband, and robbin.]

To render heavy or cohesive. [Obs.] Marl is binding, and saddening of land is the great prejudice it doth to clay lands. Mortimer.

To collect by scrambling; as, to scramble up wealth. Marlowe.

To bind or fasten together with a lashing of small stuff, as yarn or marline; as, to seize ropes.

A skein or hank of rope yarns wound round with yarns or marline, -- used for stoppers, straps, etc.

military jacket. -- Shell lime, lime made by burning the shells of shellfish. -- Shell marl (Min.), a kind of marl characterized by an abundance of shells, or fragments of shells. -- Shell meat, food consisting of shellfish, or testaceous mollusks. Fuller. -- Shell mound. See under Mound. -- Shell of a boiler, th…

- Small register. See the Note under 1st Register, 7. -- Small stuff (Naut.), spun yarn, marline, and the smallest kinds of rope. R. H. Dana, Jr. -- Small talk, light or trifling conversation; chitchat. -- Small wares (Com.), various small textile articles, as tapes, braid, tringe, and the like. M`Culloch.…

. -- Spanish windlass (Naut.), a wooden roller, with a rope wound about it, into which a marline spike is thrust to serve as a lever.

A small marline spike; a pricker.

ornamental knob; a boss. A belt of straw and ivy buds, With coral clasps and amber studs. Marlowe. Crystal and myrrhine cups, embossed with gems And studs of pearl. Milton.

Being or lying beyond the moon; hence, ethereal; -- opposed to sublunary. [Obs.] Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave, translunary things That the first poets had. Drayton.

s.] His presence made the rudest peasant melt, That in the wild, uplandish country dwelt. Marlowe.