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A market. Where has commerce such a mart . . . as London Cowper.

A lily (Lilium Martagon) with purplish red flowers, found in Europe and Asia.

To make a blow with, or as with, a hammer. [Obs.] Spenser.

A weapon resembling a hammer, often having one side of the head pointed; -- used by horsemen in the Middle Ages to break armor. Fairholt.

A small hammer used by marble workers and sculptors.

A building of masonry, generally circular, usually erected on the seacoast, with a gun on the summit mounted on a traversing platform, so as to be fired in any direction.

A bird. See Martin.

Same as Marten. [Obs.]

Of, pertaining to, or suited for, war; military; as, martial music; a martial appearance. "Martial equipage." Milton.

The quality of being warlike; exercises suitable for war. [Obs.]

A warrior. [Obs.] Fuller.

To render warlike; as, to martialize a people.

In a martial manner.

The quality of being martial.

Of or pertaining to Mars, the Roman god of war, or to the planet bearing his name; martial.

ly having the tail less deeply forked than the tail of the common swallows. [Written also marten.]

The martin.

A species of tinamou (Calopezus elegans), having a long slender crest.

The principles or practices of a martinet; rigid adherence to discipline, etc.

ing stake; also, the sum so risked; -- metaphorically derived from the bifurcation of the martingale of a harness. [Cant] Thackeray.