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<h1>Marceline</h1> <Xpage=894>

<hw>Mar"cel*ine</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F., fr. L. <ets>marcidus</ets> withered, fr. <ets>marcere</ets> to wither, shrivel.]</ety> <def>A thin silk fabric used for linings, etc., in ladies' dresses.</def>

<h1>Marcescent</h1> <Xpage=894>

<hw>Mar*ces"cent</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>marcescens</ets>, p. pr. of <ets>marcescere</ets> to wither, decay, fr. <ets>marcere</ets> to wither, droop: cf. F. <ets>marcescent</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Withering without<?/ falling off; fading; decaying.</def>

<h1>Marcescible</h1> <Xpage=894>

<hw>Mar*ces"ci*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>marcescible</ets>.]</ety> <def>Li<?/ble to wither or decay.</def>

<h1>March</h1> <Xpage=894>

<hw>March</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>Martius mensis</ets> Mars'month fr. <ets>Martius</ets> belonging to <ets>Mars</ets>, the god of war: cf. F. <ets>mars</ets>. Cf. <er>Martial</er>.]</ety> <def>The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days.</def>

<blockquote>The stormy <b>March</b> is come at last, With wind, and cloud, and changing skies. <i>Bryant.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>As mad as a March Hare</col>, <cd>an old English Saying derived from the fact that March is the rutting time of hares, when they are excitable and violent.</cd></cs>

<i>Wright.</i>

<h1>March</h1> <Xpage=894>

<hw>March</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>marche</ets>, F. <ets>marche</ets>; of German origin; cf. OHG. <ets>marcha</ets>, G. <ets>mark</ets>, akin to OS. <ets>marka</ets>, AS. <ets>mearc</ets>, Goth. <ets>marka</ets>, L. <ets>margo</ets> edge, border, margin, and possibly to E. <ets>mark</ets> a sign. <?/106. Cf. <er>Margin</er>, <er>Margrave</er>, <er>Marque</er>, <er>Marquis</er>.]</ety> <def>A territorial border or frontier; a region adjacent to a boundary line; a confine; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in English history applied especially to the border land on the frontiers between England and Scotland, and England and Wales.</def>

<blockquote>Geneva is situated in the <b>marches</b> of several dominions -- France, Savoy, and Switzerland. <i>Fuller.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Lords of waste <b>marches</b>, kings of desolate isles. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<h1>March</h1> <Xpage=894>

<hw>March</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <ety>[Cf. OF. <ets>marchir</ets>. See 2d <er>March</er>.]</ety> <def>To border; to be contiguous; to lie side by side.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>That was in a strange land Which <b>marcheth</b> upon Chimerie. <i>Gower.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To march with</col>, <cd>to have the same boundary for a greater or less distance; -- said of an estate.</cd></cs>

<h1>March</h1> <Xpage=894>

<hw>March</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Marched</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Marching</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[F. <ets>marcher</ets>, in OF. also, to tread, prob. fr. L. <ets>marcus</ets> hammer. Cf. <er>Mortar</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To move with regular steps, as a soldier; to walk in a grave, deliberate, or stately manner; to advance steadily.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To proceed by walking in a body or in military order; <as>as, the German army <er>marched</er> into France</as>.</def>

<h1>March</h1> <Xpage=894>

<hw>March</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>TO cause to move with regular steps in the manner of a soldier; to cause to move in military array, or in a body, as troops; to cause to advance in a steady, regular, or stately manner; to cause to go by peremptory command, or by force.</def>

<blockquote><b>March</b> them again in fair array. <i>Prior.</i></blockquote>

<h1>March</h1> <Xpage=894>

<hw>March</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>marche</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of marching; a movement of soldiers from one stopping place to another; military progress; advance of troops.</def>