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A dike a marsh or fen. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

their pieces are treated with contempt. Washington. The war had progressed for some time. Marshall.

The limit or scope of a statute; the whole extent of its intention or provisions. Marshall. Profanations within the purview of several statutes. Bacon.

The marsh harrier. [Prov. Eng.]

A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man horse, to enable him to step on marshy or soft ground. Racket court, a court for playing the game of rackets.

ng the campaign of 1776, instead of reënforcing, it was necessary to re-create, the army. Marshall.

new commission to. Officers whose time of service had expired were to be recommissioned. Marshall.

bordered with orange, on each wing. Called also redwinged blackbird, red-winged troupial, marsh blackbird, and swamp blackbird.

dbird. -- Reed bunting (Zoöl.) A European sparrow (Emberiza schoeniclus) which frequents marshy places; -- called also reed sparrow, ring bunting. (b) Reedling. -- Reed canary grass (Bot.), a tall wild grass (Phalaris arundinacea). -- Reed grass. (Bot.) (a) The common reed. See Reed, 1. (b) A plant of the genus Spar…

nd is an emblem of fidelity or constancy. There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Shak. Marsh rosemary. (a) A little shrub (Andromeda polifolia) growing in cold swamps and having leaves like those of the rosemary. (b) See under Marsh. -- Rosemary pine, the loblolly pine. See under Loblolly.

A little run or stream; a streamlet; a brook. To trace out to its marshy source every runlet that has cast in its tiny pitcherful with the rest. Lowell.

A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus.

A salt marsh, or salt pond, inclosed from the sea.

Overflowed with, or growing in, salt water; as, a salt marsh; salt grass.

A salt marsh.

The species of glasswort (Salicornia herbacea); -- called in England marsh samphire.

See Marsh rosemary, under Marsh.

A rich slimy deposit in salt marshes and along the seashore, sometimes used as a manure; -- called also sea ooze.

ny plant of the genus Carex, perennial, endogenous herbs, often growing in dense tufts in marshy places. They have triangular jointless stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grasslike leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib. There are several hundred species.

s the seneschal had the dispensing of justice, and was given high military commands. Then marshaled feast Served up in hall with sewers and seneschale. Milton. Philip Augustus, by a famous ordinance in 1190, first established royal courts of justice, held by the officers called baitiffs, or seneschals, who acted as the…