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The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days. The stormy March is come at last, With wind, and cloud, and changing skies. Bryant. As mad as a March Hare, an old English Saying derived from the fact that March is the rutting time of hares, when they are excitable and violent. Wright.

Extremely rash; foolhardy. See under March, the month. Sir W. Scott.

A warden of the marches; a marcher.

One who marches.

In old English and in Scots law, a fine paid to the lord of the soil by a tenant upon the marriage of one the tenant's daughters.

,fr. March, v. Marching money (Mil.), the additional pay of officer or soldier when his regiment is marching. -- In marching order (Mil.), equipped for a march. -- Marching regiment. (Mil.) (a) A regiment in active service. (b) In England, a regiment liable to be ordered into other quarters, at home or abroad; a regi…

The wife or the widow of a marquis; a woman who has the rank and dignity of a marquis. Spelman.

A person living in the marches between England and Scotland or Wales.

A kind of sweet bread or biscuit; a cake of pounded almonds and sugar. [Obs.]marzipan Shak.

To march back, or to march in reversed order. The two armies marched and countermarched, drew near and receded. Macaulay.

March; walk; gait. [Obs.]

To march away. [Obs.]

The chief magistrate of a nome or nomarchy.

A province or territorial division of a kingdom, under the rule of a nomarch, as in modern Greece; a nome.

To surpass in marching; to march faster than, or so as to leave behind.

To march too far, or too much; to exhaust by marching. Baker.

In Athens, originally, the military commanderin-chief; but, afterward, a civil magistrate who had jurisdiction in respect of strangers and sojourners. In other Grecian cities, a high military and civil officer.

panied his speech with a bow. The Persian dames, . . . In sumptuous cars, accompanied his march. Glover. They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. Sir P. Sidney. He was accompanied by two carts filled with wounded rebels. Macaulay.

f the Hebrew ecclesiastical year, and the sixth of the civil. It corresponded nearly with March.

ten in his wrinkles. Hawthorne. Advanced guard, a detachment of troops which precedes the march of the main body.