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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.

To subject to trial by a court-martial.

Not martial; unwarlike. [Obs.]

employer for the money intrusted to his care. Let his neck answer for it, if there is any martial law. Shak.

To sanction officially; to ratify; to confirm; as, to approve the decision of a court-martial.

on or affection; eagerness; zeal; as, he pursues study with ardor; the fought with ardor; martial ardor.

l more or less extensive. -- To fight at barriers, to fight with a barrier between, as a martial exercise. [Obs.]

and dissolute minions of the palace, dared to do more than mutter something about a court martial. Macaulay.

Of or pertaining to war; warlike; martial. [Obs.] "Bellic Cæsar." Feltham.

An exception to a juror or to a member of a court martial, coupled with a demand that he should be held incompetent to act; the claim of a party that a certain person or persons shall not sit in trial upon him or his cause. Blackstone

ficial approbation to; to disallow; to decline to sanction; as, the sentence of the court-martial was disapproved by the commander in chief.

A song; a lay; a little poem intended to be sung. "Religious, martial, or civil ditties." Milton.ditties sing. Sandys.

m) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band. The drums cry bud-a-dub. Gascoigne.

company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. D. Webster.

ierced with sockets for levers used in turning it. See Illust. of Capstan. Drumhead court-martial (Mil.), a summary court-martial called to try offenses on the battlefield or the line of march, when, sometimes, a drumhead has to do service as a writing table.