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.

Variegated like marble; covered or overlaid with marble.

A covering or incrusting with marble; a casing of marble; a variegating so as to resemble marble.

Pertaining to, or resembling, marble; made of marble.

The metamorphism of limestone, that is, its conversion into marble.

A species of small opossum (Didelphys murina) ranging from Mexico to Brazil.

Any one of numerous species of small South American monkeys of the genera Hapale and Midas, family Hapalidae. They have long soft fur, and a hairy, nonprehensile tail. They are often kept as pets. Called also squirrel monkey.

Any rodent of the genus Marmota (formerly Arctomys) of the subfamily Sciurinae. The common European marmot (Marmota marmotta) is about the size of a rabbit, and inhabits the higher regions of the Alps and Pyrenees. The bobac is another European species. The common American species (Marmota monax) is the woodchuck (also called groundhog), but the name marmot is usually used only for the western variety.

See Marmoset.

Of or pertaining to Morocco; as, Maroc mosques cannot be entered by women without a head covering.

A dress crepe; similar to Canton crepe.

See Maroon, the color.

One of a body of nominal Christians, who speak the Arabic language, and reside on Mount Lebanon and in different parts of Syria. They take their name from one Maron of the 6th century.

A brownish or dull red of any description, esp. of a scarlet cast rather than approaching crimson or purple.

One who, by his officious interference, mars or frustrates a design or plot.

A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals.

A large field tent; esp., one adapted to the use of an officer of high rank.

A marquis.

Inlaid work; work inlaid with pieces of wood, shells, ivory, veneer, and the like, of several colors, fitted together to form a design or picture that is then used to ornament furniture.

The seigniory, dignity, or lordship of a marquis; the territory governed by a marquis.

A marquisate.

The wife of a marquis; a marchioness.

A marquisate.

A coarse grass found on sandy beaches (Ammophila arundinacea). See Beach grass, under Beach.

One who mars or injures.

Marriageable.

The act of marrying, or the state of being married; legal union of a man and a woman for life, as husband and wife; wedlock; matrimony.

The quality or state of being marriageable.

Fit for, or capable of, marriage; of an age at which marriage is allowable.

Being in the state of matrimony; having a spouse; wedded; as, a married man or woman; -- of one person.

One who marries.

Same as 1st Maroon.

The razor-billed auk. See Auk. The common guillemot. The puffin.

To fill with, or as with, marrow or fat; to glut.

A bone containing marrow; ludicrously, knee bones or knees; as, to get down on one's marrowbones, i. e., to kneel.

A rich but late variety of pea.

Of the nature of, or like, marrow.

Destitute of marrow.

Full of marrow; pithy.

A genus of bitter aromatic plants, sometimes used in medicine; hoarhound.

Morocco, a country in Northwestern Africa.

Indeed! in truth! -- a term of asseveration said to have been derived from the practice of swearing by the Virgin Mary.

The god of war and husbandry.

A kind of wine exported from Marsala in Sicily.

A genus of plants of the Milkweed family, mostly woody climbers with fragrant flowers, several species of which furnish valuable fiber, and one species (Marsdenia tinctoria) affords indigo.

The menhaden.

A native or inhabitant of Marseilles.

A general term for certain kinds of fabrics, which are formed of two series of threads interlacing each other, thus forming double cloth, quilted in the loom; -- so named because first made in Marseilles, France.

A tract of soft wet land, commonly covered partially or wholly with water; a fen; a swamp; a morass.

One who marshals.

The court or seat of a marshal; hence, the prison in Southwark, belonging to the marshal of the king's household.

The office of a marshal.

The state or condition of being marshy.

A natural family of clover ferns.

One of the Marsipobranchia.

A class of Vertebrata, lower than fishes, characterized by their purselike gill cavities, cartilaginous skeletons, absence of limbs, and a suckerlike mouth destitute of jaws. It includes the lampreys and hagfishes. See Cyclostoma, and Lamprey. Called also Marsipobranchiata, and Marsipobranchii.

One of the Marsupialia.

A subclass of Mammalia, including nearly all the mammals of Australia and the adjacent islands, together with the opossums of America. They differ from ordinary mammals in having the corpus callosum very small, in being implacental, and in having their young born while very immature. The female generally carries the young for some time after birth in an external pouch, or marsupium. Called also Marsupiata.

One of the Marsupialia.

Related to or resembling the marsupials; furnished with a pouch for the young, as the marsupials, and also some fishes and Crustacea.

Same as Marsupium.

A fossil crinoid of the genus Marsupites, resembling a purse in form.

The pouch, formed by a fold of the skin of the abdomen, in which marsupials carry their young; also, a pouch for similar use in other animals, as certain Crustacea. The pecten in the eye of birds and reptiles. See Pecten.

The god Mars.

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

To make a blow with, or as with, a hammer.

A small hammer used by marble workers and sculptors.

A bird. See Martin.

Any one of several fur-bearing carnivores of the genus Martes (formerly Mustela), closely allied to the sable. Among the more important species are the European beech marten or stone marten (Martes foina); the pine marten (Martes martes); and the American marten, or sable (Martes Americana), which some Zoologists consider only a variety of the Russian sable.

Same as Marten.

The genus of mammals including the martens.

The quality of being warlike; exercises suitable for war.

A warrior.

To render warlike; as, to martialize a people.

In a martial manner.

The quality of being martial.

An inhabitant of the planet Mars; -- fictional or hypothetical.

One of several species of swallows, usually having the tail less deeply forked than the tail of the common swallows.

The martin.