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A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, howewer produced.

Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.

Marked with closely set transverse furrows.

ss of belief; a disposition to believe on slight evidence. That implict credulity is the mark of a feeble mind will not be disputed. Sir W. Hamilton.

n slight evidence; credulity. Beyond all credulity is the credulousness of atheists. S. Clarke.

ngth and fullness of tone; -- a direction for the performance of music, indicated by the mark, or by writing the word on the score.

reasing moon with horns directed upward, when used in a coat of arms; -- often used as a mark of cadency to distinguish a second son and his descendants.

The ridge or top of wave. Like wave with crest of sparkling foam. Sir W. Scott.

Lively; sparking; effervescing. Your neat crisp claret. Beau & Fl.

A mark or cross, as the signature of a person who is unable to write.

mploying for consecutive periods cellular confinement, associated imprisonment under the mark system, restraint intermediate between imprisonment and freedom, and liberation on ticket of leave.

A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure. Through lanes, and crooks, and darkness. Phaer.

A New Zealand plover (Anarhynchus frontalis), remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right.

The dark space within the negative-pole glow at the cathode of a vacuum tube, observed only when the pressure is low enough to give a striated discharge; -- called also Crookes layer.

The sign or mark of the cross, made with the finger, or in ink, etc., or actually represented in some material; the symbol of Christ's death; the ensign and chosen symbol of Christianity, of a Christian people, and of Christendom. The custom of making the sign of the cross with the hand or finger, as a means of conferr…

A bun or cake marked with a cross, and intended to be eaten on Good Friday.

Marked or measured by crotchets; having musical notation. Harmar (1587).

Marked with the sign of the cross. [Obs.] Crouched friar. See Crutched friar, under Crutched.

Marked with crow's-feet, or wrinkles, about the eyes. [Poetic] Do I look as if I were crow-trodden Beau. & FL.

land, or any ornamental fillet encircling the head, especially as a reward of victory or mark of honorable distinction; hence, anything given on account of, or obtained by, faithful or successful effort; a reward. "An olive branch and laurel crown." Shak. They do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptibl…