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A genus of mintlike plants (Origanum) comprising about twenty- five species. The sweet marjoram (O. Majorana) is pecularly aromatic and fragrant, and much used in cookery. The wild marjoram of Europe and America is O. vulgare, far less fragrant than the other.

A license of reprisals. See Marque.

Remarkable. [Obs.] Sandys.

Designated or distinguished by, or as by, a mark; hence; noticeable; conspicuous; as, a marked card; a marked coin; a marked instance. -- Mark"ed*ly, adv. J. S. Mill. A marked man, a man who is noted by a community, or by a part of it, as, for excellence or depravity; -- usually with an unfavorable suggestion.…

See Marquee.

One who or that which marks. Specifically:

cattle, provisions, wares, etc.) by private purchase and sale, and not by auction; as, a market is held in the town every week. He is wit's peddler; and retails his wares At wakes, and wassails, meetings, markets, fairs. Shak. Three women and a goose make a market. Old Saying.

Fit to be offered for sale in a market; such as may be justly and lawfully sold; as, dacayemarketable.

Quality of being marketable.

One who attends a market to buy or sell; one who carries goods to market.

The act of selling or of purchasing in, or as in, a market.

A market place. [Obs.] Drayton.

A large wild goat (Capra megaceros), having huge flattened spiral horns. It inhabits the mountains of Northern India and Cashmere.

The act of one who, or that which, marks; the mark or marks made; arrangement or disposition of marks or coloring; as, the marking of a bird's plumage. Marking ink, indelible ink, because used in marking linen. -- Marking nut (Bot.), the nut of the Semecarpus Anacardium, an East Indian tree. The shell of the nut yield…

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 cover, as part of a rope, with marline, marking a pecular hitch at each turn to prevent unwinding. Marling spike. (Naut.) See under Marline.