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o a small coin used in Palestine in the time of Christ. Two mites, which make a farthing. Mark xii. 49.

A spot; a stain; a mark which discolors or disfigures. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

rency, as the dollar in the United States, the pound in England, the franc in France, the mark in Germany.

Something to preserve memory; a reminder; a monument; hence, a mark; an image; a superscription; a record. [Obs.] Spenser.

he exclusive power, right, or privilege of dealing in some article, or of trading in some market; sole command of the traffic in anything, however obtained; as, the proprietor of a patented article is given a monopoly of its sale for a limited time; chartered trading companies have sometimes had a monopoly of trade wit…

A stone or other permanent object, serving to indicate a limit or to mark a boundary.

- Mother Carey's goose (Zoöl.), the giant fulmar of the Pacific. See Fulmar. -- Mother's mark (Med.), a congenital mark upon the body; a nævus.

To mark with spots of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate.

Marked with spots of different colors; variegated; spotted; as, mottled wood. "The mottled meadows." Drayton.

One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor. Such is the weakness and easy credulity of men, that a mountebank ... is preferred before an able physician. Whitlock.…

gastropod shell (Voluta musica) found in the East Indies; -- so called because the color markings often resemble printed music. Sometimes applied to other shells similarly marked. -- To face the music, to meet any disagreeable necessity without flinching. [Colloq. or Slang]

West African monkey (Cercopithecus cephus). It has yellow whiskers, and a triangular blue mark on the nose.

A salmon (Salmo mykiss, syn. S. purpuratus) marked with black spots and a red throat, found in most of the rivers from Alaska to the Colorado River, and in Siberia; -- called also black-spotted trout, cutthroat trout, and redthroat trout.

A spot or mark on the skin of children when born; a birthmark; -- usually applied to vascular tumors, i. e., those consisting mainly of blood vessels, as dilated arteries, veins, or capillaries.

A mark or depression in the middle of the abdomen; the umbilicus. See Umbilicus.belly button in humans

Not this merely, but also; not only so, but; -- used to mark the addition or substitution of a more explicit or more emphatic phrase.

North America and Greenland. In the geographical distribution of animals, this region is marked off as the habitat certain species.

Clouded with indistinct color markings, as an animal.

The condition of being nebulated; also, a clouded, or ill- defined, color mark.

Wearing a necklace; marked as with a necklace. The hooded and the necklaced snake. Sir W. Jones.