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Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Marcello Malpighi, an Italian anatomist of the 17th century. Malhighian capsules or corpuscles, the globular dilatations, containing the glomeruli or Malpighian tufts, at the extremities of the urinary tubules of the kidney. Malpighian corpuscles of the spleen, masses of adenoid tis…

Originally, a lord or keeper of the borders or marches in Germany.

An old weight and coin. See Marc. "Lend me a mark." Chaucer.

A marchioness. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A marquis. Lady marquess, a marchioness. [Obs.] Shak.

xt below that of duke. Originally, the marquis was an officer whose duty was to guard the marches or frontiers of the kingdom. The office has ceased, and the name is now a mere title conferred by patent.

The wife of a marquis; a marchioness.

A large British fluke, or flounder (Rhombus megastoma); -- called also carter, and whiff. marchpane.

An old Scotch silver coin; a mark or marc. [Scot.]

A militiaman who was to be ready to march at a moment's notice; -- a term used in the American Revolution.

her; natural or appropriate motion; progress; advancement; as, the movement of an army in marching or maneuvering; the movement of a wheel or a machine; the party of movement.

The refuse of fruit, after the juice has been expressed; marc.

and animals, and denies the inheritance of acquired characters; -- esp. opposed to Neo-Lamarckism. Weismannism is an example of extreme Neo- Darwinism. -- Ne`o-Dar*win"i*an, a. & n.

f the jewish ecclesiastical year, formerly answering nearly to the month of April, now to March, of the Christian calendar. See Abib.

A province or political division, as of modern Greece or ancient Egypt; a nomarchy.

February, April, June, August, September, November, and December, and the seventh day of March, May, July, and October. The nones were nine days before the ides, reckoning inclusively, according to the Roman method.

y point on the earth except the poles and the equator. -- Oblique step (Mil.), a step in marching, by which the soldier, while advancing, gradually takes ground to the right or left at an angle of about 25º. It is not now practiced. Wilhelm. -- Oblique system of coördinates (Anal. Geom.), a system in which the coördi…

off the hat or cloak; to cut off, to pare off, to clip off, to peel off, to tear off, to march off, to fly off, and the like.

Performed in good or established order; well-regulated. "An orderly . . . march." Clarendon.

; -- usually in the plural; as, the outskirts of a town. Wordsworth. The outskirts of his march of mystery. Keble.