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Powerful in arms; mighty in battle. The temple stood of Mars armipotent. Dryden.

To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; to marshal. By torch and trumpet fast arrayed, Each horseman drew his battle blade. Campbell. These doubts will be arrayed before their minds. Farrar.

A starlike body; esp. one of the numerous small planets whose orbits lie between those of Mars and Jupiter; -- called also planetoids and minor planets.

d also to the gaseous envelope of any celestial orb, or other body; as, the atmosphere of Mars.

same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in the suit. See Attachment, 4. The earl marshal attached Gloucester for high treason. Miss Yonge. Attached column (Arch.), a column engaged in a wall, so that only a part of its circumference projects from it.

cles [clothes and blankets] in Philadelphia, and they were not attainable in the country. Marshall.

A ratlike marsupial animal (genus Perameles) of several species, found in Australia and Tasmania.

To clip; to mow. [Obs.] Marston.

Of or pertaining to bards, or their poetry. "The bardic lays of ancient Greece." G. P. Marsh.

Surface; body; substance. [R.] You have touched the very bare of naked truth. Marston.

An apron. [Obs.] "Bakers in their linen bases." Marston.

A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the baton of a field marshal; the baton of a conductor in musical performances. He held the baton of command. Prescott.

A small, leaping Australian marsupial of the genus Bettongia; the jerboa kangaroo.

A genus (Utricularia) of aquatic or marshy plants, which usually bear numerous vesicles in the divisions of the leaves. These serve as traps for minute animals. See Ascidium.

tals corresponding to the planets. [Obs.] Sol gold is, and Luna silver we threpe (=call), Mars yren (=iron), Mercurie quicksilver we clepe, Saturnus lead, and Jupiter is tin, and Venus coper. Chaucer. -- Body snatcher, one who secretly removes without right or authority a dead body from a grave, vault, etc.; a resurrec…

d moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass. Appalled with thoughts of bog, or caverned pit, Of treacherous earth, subsiding where they tread. R. Jago.

letter; a statement in few words. Bear this sealed brief, With winged hastle, to the lord marshal. Shak. And she told me In a sweet, verbal brief. Shak.

cems of white or reddish flowers and intensely bitter leaves, sometimes used in medicine; marsh trefoil; -- called also bog bean.

of the eastern continent. It is larger and less docile than the common ox, and is fond of marshy places and rivers.

on spots on the wings. -- Burnet saxifrage. (Bot.) See Saxifrage. -- Canadian burnet, a marsh plant (Poterium Canadensis). -- Great burnet, Wild burnet, Poterium (or Sanguisorba) oficinalis.