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A marquis. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A marchioness. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A marksman. [Obs.] Shak.

One skillful to hit a mark with a missile; one who shoots well.

Skill of a marksman.

To mark wrongly.

A long, closely fitting cloak.

aceous shrub (Neillia, or Spiræa, opulifolia), common in the Northern United States. The bark separates into many thin layers, whence the name.

To exceed in sparkling.

Too anxious; too full of care. [Archaic] Fuller.

as for the preservation of game, for walking, riding, or the like. Chaucer. While in the park I sing, the listening deer Attend my passion, and forget to fear. Waller.

An outer garment made of the skins of birds or mammals, worn by Eskimos, etc.

, The keeper of a park. Sir M. Hale.

A genus of large arenaceous fossil Foraminifera found in the Cretaceous rocks. The species are globular, or nearly so, and are of all sizes up to that of a tennis ball.

A compound, originally made from gun cotton and castor oil, but later from different materials, and used as a substitute for vulcanized India rubber and for ivory; -- called also xylotile.

A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan.

Dark as a pitch; pitch-black.

A mark conspicuously painted on the port side of all British sea-going merchant vessels, to indicate the limit of submergence allowed by law; -- so called from Samuel Plimsoll, by whose efforts the act of Parliament to prevent overloading was procured.

A mark or pit made by smallpox.

Marked by smallpox; pitted.