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ey were to be eaten by the priests only, and in the Holy Place. [Written also shewbread.] Mark ii. 26.

Making a show; attracting attention; presenting a marked appearance; ostentatious; gay; gaudy. A present of everything that was rich and showy. Addison.

A contagious disease, endemic in Scotland, resembling the yaws. It is marked by ulceration of the throat and nose and by pustules and soft fungous excrescences upon the surface of the body. In the Orkneys the name is applied to the itch. [Written also sivvens.]

To pronounce with a hissing sound, like that of the letter s; to mark with a character indicating such pronunciation.

not in health. See the Synonym under Illness. Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever. Mark i. 30. Behold them that are sick with famine. Jer. xiv. 18.

Measuring by the apparent motion of the stars; designated, marked out, or accompanied, by a return to the same position in respect to the stars; as, the sidereal revolution of a planet; a sidereal day. Sidereal clock, day, month, year. See under Clock, Day, etc. -- Sideral time, time as reckoned by sideral days, or, t…

Hence, to lament; to grieve. He sighed deeply in his spirit. Mark viii. 12.

That by which anything is made known or represented; that which furnishes evidence; a mark; a token; an indication; a proof. Specifically:

naling, or of signalizing; hence, description by peculiar, appropriate, or characteristic marks. Mrs. Browning.

Having definite color markings.

Sign given; marking. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A sign, stamp, or mark impressed, as by a seal. The brain, being well furnished with various traces, signatures, and images. I. Watts. The natural and indelible signature of God, which human souls . . . are supposed to be stamped with. Bentley.

Stamped or marked with a signet.

To glimmer; to twinkle. [Obs.] Yet can I mark how stars above Simper and shine. Herbert.

monate gastropods of the genus Siphonaria. They cling to rocks between high and low water marks and have both lunglike organs and gills. -- Si`pho*na"rid, a.

Marked with spots and patches of white and some color other than black; -- usually distinguished from piebald, in which the colors are properly white and black. Said of horses.

properly call "slander", or "Backbiting." Tillotson. [We] make the careful magistrate The mark of slander. B. Jonson.

Marked or cut with a slash or slashes; deeply gashed; especially, having long, narrow openings, as a sleeve or other part of a garment, to show rich lining or under vesture. A gray jerkin, with scarlet and slashed sleeves. Sir W. Scott.

The act of killing cattle or other beasts for market.

A house where beasts are butchered for the market.