Part 6849

<hw>Mar"row*less</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Destitute of marrow.</def>

<h1>Marrowy</h1> <Xpage=897>

<hw>Mar"row*y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Full of marrow; pithy.</def>

<h1>Marrubium</h1> <Xpage=897>

<hw>Mar*ru"bi*um</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A genus of bitter aromatic plants, sometimes used in medicine; hoarhound.</def>

<h1>Marry</h1> <Xpage=897>

<hw>Mar"ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Married</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Marrying</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>marien</ets>, F. <ets>marier</ets>, L. <ets>maritare</ets>, fr. <ets>maritus</ets> husband, fr. <ets>mas</ets>, <ets>maris</ets>, a male. See <er>Male</er>, and cf. <er>Maritral</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining, as a man and a woman, for life; to constitute (a man and a woman) husband and wife according to the laws or customs of the place.</def>

<blockquote>Tell him that he shall <b>marry</b> the couple himself. <i>Gay.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To join according to law, (a man) to a woman as his wife, or (a woman) to a man as her husband. See the Note to def. 4.</def>

<blockquote>A woman who had been <b>married</b> to her twenty-fifth husband, and being now a widow, was prohibited to marry. <i>Evelyn.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To dispose of in wedlock; to give away as wife.</def>

<blockquote>M\'91cenas took the liberty to tell him [Augustus] that he must either <b>marry</b> his daughter [Julia] to Agrippa, or take away his life. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To take for husband or wife. See the Note below.</def>

<note>&hand; We say, a man is <i>married to</i> or <i>marries</i> a woman; or, a woman is <i>married to</i> or <i>marries</i> a man. Both of these uses are equally well authorized; but <i>given in marriage</i> is said only of the woman.</note>

<blockquote>They got him [the Duke of Monmouth] . . . to declare in writing, that the last king [Charles II.] told him he was never <b>married</b> to his mother. <i>Bp. Lloyd.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Figuratively, to unite in the closest and most endearing relation.</def>

<blockquote>Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am <b>married</b> unto you. <i>Jer. iii. 14.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To marry ropes</col>. <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To place two ropes along side of each other so that they may be grasped and hauled on at the same time</cd>. <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To join two ropes end to end so that both will pass through a block.</cd></cs>

<i>Ham. Nav. Encyc.</i>

<h1>Marry</h1> <Xpage=897>

<hw>Mar"ry</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.</def>

<blockquote>I will, therefore, that the younger women <b>marry</b>. <i>1 Tim. v. 14.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Marrrying man</col>, <cd>a man disposed to marry. <mark>[Colloq.]</mark></cd></cs>

<h1>Marry</h1> <Xpage=897>

<hw>Mar"ry</hw>, <tt>interj.</tt> <def>Indeed ! in truth ! -- a term of asseveration said to have been derived from the practice of swearing by the Virgin Mary.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Mars</h1> <Xpage=897>

<hw>Mars</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>Mars</ets>, gen. <ets>Martis</ets>, archaic <ets>Mavors</ets>, gen. <ets>Mavortis</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Rom. Myth.)</fld> <def>The god of war and husbandry.</def>