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worrds or images than are necessary or useful; pleonastic. Where an suthor is redundant, mark those paragraphs to be retrenched. I. Watts.

To look closely at; to observe attentively; to pay attention to; to notice or remark particularly. If much you note him, You offened him; . . . feed, and regard him not. Shak.

g an official registration, obtains a certain right or title of possession, as to a trade-mark.

To swallow again; to swallow back. Tides at highest mark regorge the flood. DRyden.

To buy in large quantities, as corn, provisions, etc., at a market or fair, with the intention of selling the same again, in or near the same place, at a higher price, -- a practice which was formerly treated as a public offense.

Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a former worse state. Relapsing fever (Med.), an acute, epidemic, contagious fever, which prevails also endemically in Ireland, Russia, and some other regions. It is marked by one or two remissions of the fever, by articular and muscular pains, and by the presence…

to let go. Now at that feast he released unto them one prisoner, whomsoever they desired. Mark xv. 6.

To mark again, or a second time; to mark anew.

To mark in a notable manner; to distinquish clearly; to make noticeable or conspicuous; to piont out. [Obs.] Thou art a man remarked to taste a mischief. Ford. His manacles remark him; there he sits. Milton.

The transitional movement in Europe, marked by the revival of classical learning and art in Italy in the 15th century, and the similar revival following in other countries.

A mark, or series of dots, placed before and after, or often only at the end of, a passage to be repeated in performance.

To disapprove with detestation or marks of extreme dislike; to condemn as unworthy; to disallow; to reject. Such an answer as this is reprobated and disallowed of in law; I do not believe it, unless the deed appears. Ayliffe. Every scheme, every person, recommended by one of them, was reprobated by the other. Macaulay.…

Marked or characterized by respect; as, respectful deportment. With humble joi and with respectful fear. Prior. -- Re*spect"ful*ly, adv. -- Re*spect"ful*ness, n.

ored after the severest afflictions. Prior. And his hand was restored whole as the other. Mark iii. 5.

To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay; as, to retire bonds; to retire a note.

To compare (a proof) with a previous proof of the same matter, and mark again such errors as have not been corrected in the type.

t in musical time, with periodical recurrence of accent; the measured beat or pulse which marks the character and expression of the music; symmetry of movement and accent. Moore (Encyc. )

An instrument for marking time in musical movements. See Metronome.

To adorn with, or as with, ribbons; to mark with stripes resembling ribbons.

To make free with; hence, to steal; to pilfer. [Obs. or Prov.] Tusser. To rig the market (Stock Exchange), to raise or lower market prices, as by some fraud or trick. [Cant]