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mass, numerous stamens, and sac-shaped bracts at the 
apex of the usually umbelliform spikes. 
3. To move in military order, as a body of 
apex ot the usually umbemtorn,_spikes t advance in a soldierly manner: as, 
Marcgraviaceae (mark-gra-vi-a'se-e), n.pl. in th V m orning the regiment marched; they 
[NL. (Jussieu, 1809), < ' Maregrama + -acece.} marnhf!d twentv miles. 
A tormer order of plants, now made a tribe ot 
the Ternstrcemiacece under the name Marcgra- 
viece. 
Marcgraviese (mark-gra-vi'e-e), TO. pi. [NL. 
(Choisy, 1824), < Marcgraria + -ecc.~\ Original- 
ly, a suborder of plants of the Marcgraviacece ; 
now, a tribe of the Ternstrcemiacece, typified by 
the genus Marcgravia. It embraces 5 genera of trop- 
ical American plants with imbricate or coherent hood- 
shaped petals, anthers fixed by the base, and numerous 
stamens. They are climbing or epiphytic woody plants, 
with flowers in terminal racemes, frequently intermixed 
with peculiar-shaped bracts. 
march 1 (march), n. [< ME. marche, partly 
(a) < AS. mearc (gen. dat. mearce), border, 
bound, mark; partly (b) < OF. marche, F. 
marche (= Pr. Sp. Pg. It. marca, ML. marca), 
border, bound, frontier, the Rom. forms being 
from the OHG. cognate with AS. mearc: see 
marched twenty miles. 
This worthy chevalrie 
All merchand to the field. 
Battle of Balrinnes (Child's Ballads, VII. 224). 
Heavy marching order, light marching order. See 
mnyl, lights. Marching orders, orders to march. 
The Duke 's in Belgium already, and we expect marching 
orders every day. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, xx. 
Marching regiment, in Great Britain, an infantry regi- mi"r/>iiaTit* ""* 
ment of the line: generally used in a disparaging sense. i X, i-' 
marchet 
the ancient Roman year till the adoption of the Julian cal- 
endar, which was followed by the Gregorian ; previous to 
the latter it was reckoned the first month in many Eu- 
ropean countries, and so continued in England till 1752, 
the legal year there before that date beginning on the 25th 
of M arch. Mad as a March hare. See harei . March 
ale, ale brewed in March. March Deer, beer brewed in 
the month of March. Spring and autumn were considered 
the best seasons for brewing ; hence, beer for keeping was 
brewed when possible either in March or in October. 
March meeting. See meeting. 
Obsolete forms of 
To march to the length oft. See length. 
II. trans. 1. To cause to move in military 
order, or in a body or regular procession : as, 
to march an army to the battle-field. 
On the marriage-bed 
Of smiling peace to march a bloody host. 
Shak., K. John, iii. 1. 246. 
2. To cause to go anywhere at one's command 
and under one's guidance: as, the policeman 
marched his prisoner to the lockup. 
An obsolete form of merchant. 
Marchantia (mar-kan'ti-a), n. [NL., named 
after Nicolas Marchant, a French botanist (died 
1678).] 1. A genus of plants of the class Be- 
paticce, and type of the order Marehantiaeece. 
further under^arf' 1 , n.] ^ A frontier or^boun- march 2 (march), n. [= D. G. Dan. Sw. marsch, 
< F. marche = Sp. Pg. marcha = It. tnareia, walk, 
gait, march; from the verb.] 1. A measured 
and uniform walk or concerted and orderly 
movement of a body of men, as soldiers; a 
regular advance of a body of men, in which 
they keep time with each other and sometimes 
withmusic; stately and deliberate walk; steady 
dary of a territory; a border; hence, a border- 
land ; a district or political division of a coun- 
try conterminous with the boundary-line of 
another country. In Scotland the term is commonly 
applied to the boundaries, or the marks which determine 
the boundaries, of conterminous estates or lands, whether 
large or small. The word is most familial- historically 
with reference to the boundaries between England and 
Wales and between England and Scotland. The latter O r labored progression : used figuratively in re- 
were divided into two parts, the western and the middle , ._n t_iJL _ ^ 
were divided into two parts, the western and the middle 
marches, each of which had courts peculiar to itself, and 
a kind of president or governor, who was called warden of 
the marches. Seemarti.lS. 
Also fro the dede See, to gon Estward out of the Marches 
of the Holy Lond, ... is a strong Castelle and a fair. 
Mandemlle, Travels, p. 104. 
For in the marches here we heard you were, 
Making another head to fight again. 
Shak., 3 Hen. VI., ii. 1. 140. 
These low and barren tracts were the outlying marche* 
of the empire. Motley, Dutch Republic, I. 18. 
Riding the marches, a ceremony in which the magis- 
trates and chief men of a municipality ride on horseback 
in procession along the boundaries of the property of the 
corporation: a practice still observed occasionallyin some 
of the burghs of Scotland, the original object of which was 
to preserve in the memory of the inhabitants the limits of 
their property. 
march 1 (march), v. i. _ 
marken, merken, < AS. mearcian, fix the bounds 
or limits of a place, < mearc, border, bound, 
mark: see swarf 1 , v., and cf. march 1 , .] 1. To 
constitute a march or border; be bordering; 
lie continuously parallel and contiguous ; abut. 
He may, zif that he wole, go thorghe Almayne, and 
gard to poetry, from its rhythm resembling the 
measured harmonious stepping of soldiery. 
Waller was smooth, but Dryden taught to join 
The varying verse, the full resounding line, 
The long majestic march and energy divine. 
Pope, Imit. of Horace, II. i. ! 
2. An advance from one halting-place to an- 
other, as of a body of soldiers or travelers ; the 
distance passed over in a single course of 
marching; a military journey of a body of 
troops: as, a march of twenty miles. 
I have trod full many a march, sir, 
And some hurts have to shew, before me too, sir. 
Beau, and FL, Knight of Malta, ii. -2. 
Such stiff-neck'd abjects as with wear}- marches 
Have travell'd from their homes, their wives, and chil- 
dren. Ford, Perkin Warbeck, iii. 1. 
[< ME. marchen, also 3. Progressive advancement; progress; regu- 
,., , u_j- lar oourge> 
There methinks would be enjoyment more than in the 
march of mind. Tennyson, Locksley Hall. 
4. A military signal to move, consisting of a 
particular drum-beat or bugle-call. 
If drummes once sound a lustie martch indeede, 
Common Liverwort {Marchantiti folymorpha). 
i, the female plant ; 2, the male plant ; a, a cnpule with the gem- 
mae ; 6, one of the gemma; ; c, the antheridium, opened ; rf, part of 
sporangium with the elaters, carrying the spores; e t elater with spores. 
M. polymorpha, the common liverwort, is the 
most widely diffused species. See liverwort. 
2. [I. c.] A plant of this genus. 
thorghe the Kyngdom of Hungarye, that marchethe to the Then farewell bookes, for he will trudge with speede. TWar/.l,3TitioSo i^s,. 1 + - / - -\ i 
Lond of Polayne. Mandemlle, Travels, p. 6. Gascoigne, Fruits of War. Kl archantiacese (mar-kan-tl-a'se-e), n. pi. 
Of al the Inhabitants of this Isle, the Kentish men are 5. In music, a strongly rhythmical composition L Nlj ., < Afarakarcfe'o + -acece.'] Cryptogamic 
most ciuilest. the which cnllntrv njfi.ri.hpth alrno-pt.hpr vrum .a--; JA.. _-_ v. , . Plants, torminff an Order of trip Hp.nnt.if.ff> Tn* Q 
most ciuilest, the which country marcheth altogether vpon 
the sea. Lyly, Euphues and his England, p. 247. 
You must not quarrel with the man whose estates march 
with your own. Mrs. Oliphant, The Ladies Lindores, p. 40. 
2. To dwell adjacent ; neighbor. 
She displayed so much kindness to Jeanie Deans (be- 
cause she herself, being a Merse woman, marched with 
Mid-Lothian, in which Jeanie was born). 
Scott, Heart of Mid-Lothian, xxviii. 
march' 2 (march), . [< ME. marchen = D. mar- 
cheren = G. marschiren = Sw. marschera = Dan. 
itrongly rhythmical composit: 
designed to accompany marching or to imitate 
a march-movement. The rhythm is usually duple, 
but it may be triply compound. Marches generally consist 
of two contrasted sections, the second of which (commonly 
called the trio) is softer and more flowing than the first, 
and is followed by a repetition of the first. Rapid marches 
are often called quicksteps or military marches. Slow , - 
marches are also called processional marches, and are marcnasitet, n. See marcasite. 
further distinguished as funeral (or dead-), nuptial, tri- marchasiticalt, a. See marcasitical. 
plants, forming an order of the ffepaticce. The 
frond is never leafy, and is frequently forked ; the male 
organs are immersed in sessile or stalked discoid or peltate 
receptacles, and the capsules are disposed symmetrically 
on the under side of stalked wheel-shaped receptacles. 
Harchantieae (miir-kau-ti'e-e), n.pl. [NL., < 
Marchantia + -ece.'] Same 'as Marehantiaeece. 
umphal, etc. 
6. In weaving, one of the short laths placed 
across the treadles beneath the shafts of a loom. 
marschere, < OF. marcher, F. marcher (= Sp. E. H. Knight. 7. In the game of euchre atak- 
Pg. marchar = It. marciare), walk, march, ing of all five tricks by one side Flank march 
, 
proceed, move on; perhaps < OF. marche, bor- See flankL- Forced march, a march vigo^y^-TssTd 
der, frontier (see march^, n.); according to an- in certain emergencies in time of war, as to effect a rapid 
other view < ML "marcare hammpr VIPT,,><, ? oncentr ation of troops or a strategical combination. It 
beat the ground wikTheTe^tmrmarcT< ^SStig^^^^^SSSSK 
marcus, a hammer) ; cf. tramp, jog, pace one's be taken to avoid such exhaustion just before going into 
beat, and similar expressions Neither view action - The troops are relieved by changing the gaits, marcher 1 ! (miir'cher), 
j. j , -i _ *. *"*!"! **" JUMmaflnir *Vio HnnKlo wi+li *-K f .,,i,,\, *;..... _^ i_ M.* A i'\: T J - { _ _ _i . 
bs lete forms 
obsolete variant of 
. An obsolete form of merchant. 
.-ditch (march'dich), n. A ditch or trench 
a landmark; a boundary. 
is satisfactory.] I. intrans. 1. To walk with 
measured steps, or with a steady regular tread ; 
move in a deliberate, stately manner ; step with 
alternating the double with the quick time, and in the 
cavalry the horses are relieved for fifteen minutes every 
hour by the dismounting and marching of the men. Any 
distance over twenty miles a day is reckoned a forced 
regularity, earnestness, or gravity: often used tr J A - March past, the march of a body of soldiers in 
trivially, as in the expression, he marched oS fr " t " g ""^ r S me " igh dignital7 - 
angrily. Between 2,000 and 3,000 troops mustered on the ground, 
o' Glenwarlock. 
[< march 1 + -cr 1 .] 
An officer who defended the marches or borders 
of a territory. 
We deny not that there were Lordships Marchers, nor 
that some statutes are restrained to them. 
Bacon, Works, X. 374. 
angrily 
When thou didst march through the wilderness 
the earth shook. p s . i xv jj|'. 7j ' g . 
So wrought this nimble Artist, and admir'd 
Herself to see the Work march on so fast. 
Beaumont, Psyche, iii. 63. 
Lords marchers of England, the noblemen who lived 
on the marches of Wales and Scotland, and had theirlaws 
and regal power, until their office was abolished by 27 
Henry VIII. 
2. Specifically, to walk with concerted steps in March 3 (march), n. [< ME. March, Marche, 
regular or measured time, as a body or a mem- Mershe, Man, < OF. march, mars, F. wans = Pr. 
and their march past was an event of the highest political 
significance. Marvin, Gates of Herat, iii. 
Rogue's march, music played in derision to accompany -, 
the expulsion from a regiment of asoldierwhoisdrummed marcher^ (marcher), n. [< march 2 + -e 
out, or of any obnoxious person ignominiously expelled One who marches. 
fi-om a community. To steal a march. See steal A path 
Inviting you, distinct with footprints yet 
^ ^ iuv(lu _ -, - - ^ many a mighty marcher gone that way. 
ber of a body of soldiers or a procession;; move mars > m <*rtz = Sp. marzo = Pg. rnarg o = It. nidrzo Browning, Paracelsus. 
= D. Maart = MLG. Mertze, Merce, Merse, Mart- marchet (mar'chet), n. [Also merchet; < ML. 
ee, LG. Merte = OHG. Merzo, Marceo, MHG. irc]ieta,marchetvm, mercheta, merchrtum, etc., 
Merze, G. Mars Sw. Mars = Dan. Marts = ^ ME - "W*rt merket (= OHG. mercat, etc.), 
OBulg. mariitu, Bulg. mart = Serv. marach, trade, market : see market.'] A pecuniary fine 
mrach = Pol. marzec = Little Buss./ree = Gr. anciently paid by a tenant, serf, or bondsman to 
MapTios, < L. Martins, sc. mensis, March, lit. the his lord for the liberty of disposingof a daughter 
month of Mars, < Mars (Mart-), Mars : see Mars, in m arriage. This payment, called in law Latin mar- 
martial, etc.] The third month of our year con- cheta , or . mfrchcta mulimim (the mark-fee of women), was 
sisting of thirty-one days. It was the first month of Spe. '"sf e"fh "quotaUon'' d "^ ther C U " trie8 ' 
f - " -j -u-. LAW.I. tj vji e* ^Ji. woocmjll . lllUVt) 
in uniform order and time; step together in 
ranks. 
Let our trains 
March by us, that we may peruse the men 
We should have coped withal. 
Shak., 2 Hen. IV., iv. 2. 93. 
The great Achilles march'd not to the field 
Till Vulean that impenetrable shield 
And arms had wrought. 
Waller, Instructions to a Painter. 
