A follower of Marcion, a Gnostic of the second century, who adopted the Oriental notion of the two conflicting principles, and imagined that between them there existed a third power, neither wholly good nor evil, the Creator of the world and of man, and the God of the Jewish dispensation.

An Asiatic wild sheep (Ovis poli) with exceptionally large horns; sometimes considered a variety of the argali: Ovis ammon poli.

A celebrated Rhine wine.

Designating, or pert. to, Marconi's system of wireless telegraphy; as, Marconi aerial, coherer, station, system, etc. [archaic]

A rig of triangular sails for a yacht.

The law that the maximum good signaling distance varies directly as the square of the height of the transmitting antenna.

same as radiogram; a wireless message.

The apparatus used in Marconi wireless telegraphy.

The theory or practice of Marconi's wireless telegraph system.

A wasting away of flesh; decay.

One of a Gnostic sect of the second century, so called from Marcus, an Egyptian, who was reputed to be a margician.

The last day of Carnival; the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday (the beginning of Lent and fasting); Shrove Tuesday; -- in some cities a great day of carnival and merrymaking; in the United States it is especially associated with New Orleans.

Sighing, suffocative panting, intercepted utterance, with a sense of pressure across the chest, occurring during sleep; the incubus; -- obsolete, except in the compound nightmare.

A navigable body of water to which all nations have equal access; the opposite of mare clausum.

The term used by the ancient Romans to refer to the Mediterranean Sea.

A supposed discovery which turns out to be a hoax; something grossly absurd.

A long streaky cloud, spreading out like a horse's tail, and believed to indicate rain; a cirrus cloud. See Cloud.

A Marsh.

A European whitefish of the genus Coregonus.

A military officer of high rank; a marshal.

A compound of the so-called margaric acid with a base.

Pertaining to, or resembling, pearl; pearly.

A fatty substance, extracted from animal fats and certain vegetable oils, formerly supposed to be a definite compound of glycerin and margaric acid, but now known to be simply a mixture or combination of tristearin and tripalmitin.

A processed food product used as an inexpensive substitute for butter, made primarily from refined vegetable oils, sometimes including animal fats, and churned with skim milk to form a semisolid emulsion; also called oleomargarine; artificial butter.

Pertaining to, or resembling, pearl; pearly.

A pearl.

Margaric.

Producing pearls.

A hidrous potash mica related to muscovite.

The ketone of margaric acid.

Margaric; -- formerly designating a supposed acid.

To impregnate (wood) with a preservative solution of copper sulphate (often called Mar"ga*ry's flu"id (-r/z)).

A small American wild cat (Felis wiedi syn. Felis tigrina), ranging from Mexico to Brazil. It is spotted with black. Called also long-tailed cat.

Border; margin; edge; verge.

To enter or note down upon the margin of a page; to margin.

To furnish with a margin.

An account with a securities brokerage in which the broker extends credit.

A demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring his margin up to the minimum requirement; -- caused by the decline in market prices of a security or commodity purchased on margin{5}.

Of or pertaining to a margin.

The increase in total cost of production as a result of producing one more unit of output; since certain ovrhead costs are fixed, the marginal cost is almost aways less than the total per-unit cost of production averaged over all units produced.

Marginal notes.

the property of being marginal or on the fringes.

In the margin of a book.

To furnish with a distinct margin; to margin.

Same as Marginate, a.

Having a margin.

A genus of small, polished, marine univalve shells, native of all warm seas.

Dehiscent by the separation of united carpels; -- said of fruits.

A large tree of the genus Melia (Melia Azadirachta) found in India. Its bark is bitter, and used as a tonic. A valuable oil is expressed from its seeds, and a tenacious gum exudes from its trunk. The Melia Azedarach is a much more showy tree, and is cultivated in the Southern United States, where it is known as Pride of India, Pride of China, or bead tree. Various parts of the tree are considered anthelmintic.

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

The territory or jurisdiction of a margrave.

The wife of a margrave.

The daisy (Bellis perennis). The name is often applied also to the ox-eye daisy and to the China aster.

Plural form of mare, a dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon.

Pertaining to the Virgin Mary, or sometimes to Mary, Queen of England, daughter of Henry VIII.

Marry.

A kind of bellflower, Companula Trachelium, once called Viola Mariana; but it is not a violet.

Produced in or by the sea.

A name for several plants with golden yellow blossoms, especially the Calendula officinalis (see Calendula), and the cultivated species of Tagetes.

A strong-smelling Asian plant (Cannabis sativa), also called hemp, from which a number of euphorogenic and halucinogenic drugs are prepared. The euphoric effect is predominently due to tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).

A musical istrument of percussion, consisting of bars yielding musical tones when struck.

A spider monkey (Ateles belzebuth) of Central and South America.

A brine or pickle containing wine or vinegar, with opil, herbs, and spices, for enriching the flavor of meat and fish, which are steeped in it prior to cooking.

Served in marinara sauce; -- used postpositionally, as veal marinara.

To salt or pickle, as fish, and then preserve in oil or vinegar; to prepare (food) by the use of marinade.

A solider serving on shipboard; a sea soldier; one of a body of troops trained to do duty in the navy.

A military explosive device designed to be placed on or under the surface of a body of water, and to explode when ships pass nearby or come in contact with it. Its function is to destroy enemy ships or deny hostile naval forces access to certain areas of the sea, usually near the shoreline. Also called underwater mine and floating mine, and previously referred to as a torpedo (See torpedo{2} (a)).

Having the lower part of the body like a fish.

One whose occupation is to assist in navigating ships; a seaman or sailor.

Seamanship.

A bombastic literary style marked by the use of metaphors and antitheses characteristic of the Italian poet Giambattista Marini (1569-1625).

A representation of a sea view.

One who worships the Virgin Mary.

The worship of the Virgin Mary.

A puppet moved by strings, as in a puppet show.

A species of civet; the zoril.

Moory; fenny; boggy.

Of or pertaining to a husband; as, marital rights, duties, authority.

Having a husband; married.

See Maritime.

Bordering on, or situated near, the ocean; connected with the sea by site, interest, or power; having shipping and commerce or a navy; as, maritime states.

The Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.

A genus of mintlike plants (Origanum) comprising about twenty-five species. The sweet marjoram (Origanum Majorana) is pecularly aromatic and fragrant, and much used in cookery. The wild marjoram of Europe and America is Origanum vulgare, far less fragrant than the other.

To take particular notice; to observe critically; to note; to remark.

Remarkable.

Designated or distinguished by, or as by, a mark; hence; noticeable; conspicuous; as, a marked card; a marked coin; a marked instance.

See Marquee.

One who or that which marks. One who keeps account of a game played, as of billiards. A counter used in card playing and other games. The soldier who forms the pilot of a wheeling column, or marks the direction of an alignment. An attachment to a sewing machine for marking a line on the fabric by creasing it.

To expose for sale in a market; to traffic in; to sell in a market, and in an extended sense, to sell in any manner; as, most of the farmes have marketed their crops.

Fit to be offered for sale in a market; such as may be justly and lawfully sold; as, dacayed provisions are not marketable.

Quality of being marketable.

One who attends a market to buy or sell; one who carries goods to market.

The act of selling or of purchasing in, or as in, a market.

an area in a town where a public market is set up; a market place; a market{2}.

A market place.

A large wild goat (Capra falconeri syn. Capra megaceros), having huge flattened spiral horns. It inhabits the mountains of Northern India and Cashmere.

The act of one who, or that which, marks; the mark or marks made; arrangement or disposition of marks or coloring; as, the marking of a bird's plumage.

A marquis.

A marchioness.

A marksman.

A random process (Markov process) in which the probabilities of discrete states in a series depend only on the properties of the immediately preceding state or the next preceeding state, independent of the path by which the preceding state was reached. It differs from the more general Markov process in that the states of a Markov chain are discrete rather than continuous. Certain physical processes, such as diffusion of a molecule in a fluid, are modelled as a Markov chain. See also random walk.

a random process in which the probabilities of states in a series depend only on the properties of the immediately preceding state or the next preceeding state, independent of the path by which the preceding state was reached. It is distinguished from a Markov chain in that the states of a Markov process may be continuous as well as discrete.

One skillful to hit a mark with a missile; one who shoots well. especially with a pistol or rifle.

Skill of a marksman.

The amount added to the cost to determine the asking price.

A climbing plant (Toxicodendron radicans) common in eastern and central U. S. with ternate leaves and greenish flowers followed by white berries. It yields an irritating oil that causes a rash on contact; commonly called poison ivy.

To overspread or manure with marl; as, to marl a field.

Resembling marl; partaking of the qualities of marl.

The American great marbled godwit (Limosa fedoa). Applied also to the red-breasted godwit (Limosa haematica).

To wind marline around; as, to marline a rope.

A variety of marl.

Partaking of the qualites of marlite.

Apit where marl is dug.

A sandy calcareous straum, containing, or impregnated with, iron, and lying between the upper and lower Lias of England.

Consisting or partaking of marl; resembling marl; abounding with marl.

A preserve or confection made of the pulp of fruit, as the quince, pear, apple, orange, etc., boiled with sugar, and brought to a jamlike consistency.

See Marmalade.

A ferruginous variety of shalerite or zinc blende, nearly black in color.

A thin, laminated variety of serpentine, usually of a pale green color.

Pertaining to, or like, marble.