mark 
2. To note; take notice. 
O im i it-lit judge ! Mark, .lew : () learned judge '. 
Shalt., M. of V., iv. 1. 313. 
mark- (miirk), . [Also mare; < ME. nnirl;, 
Hiiirr, < AS. iniin-, weight (of silver or gold). 
= OFries. merk = 1). murk = OLA*, mark, im rk 
= OIK!, "iiiarka (> ML. marca, It. marca, OF. 
uiiirr, etc.) ( MHO. mark, markc, G. mark, I., a 
weight of silver or gold, ti coin, = Icel. miirk. H 
weight ( i Ib. ) of silver or gold, = Sw. Dan. mark ; 
usually identified, in the orig. supposed sense a 
'stamped coin,' with mark 1 , u sign, stain]); but 
the sense of 'a particular weight' seems to be 
older.] 1. A unit of weight used in England 
before the Conquest, and in nearly all the Coun- 
tries of Europe down to the introduction of (lie 
metric system, especially for gold and silver. 
It was generally equal to ti ounces. In 1524 the Cologne 
mark was made the standard for gold and silver through- 
out the (ierman-Koman empire, anil copies were distrib- 
uted to all the principal cities. But, owing to the care- 
lessness with which these were made, preserved, and 
copied, the Cologne mark came to have different val- 
ues in different places. The following table shows the 
values of some of the principal marks in English troy 
grains, either directly as given, or reduced from French 
grains, doll, or milligrams. The larger discrepancies are 
in most cases due to known changes of standards. 
Place. 
Distinctive name. 
ii 
l.s 
English 
Mint, 1818. 
Russian 
Commission, 
1843. 
Official de- 
terminations. 
Berlin ... 
Bremen . . . 
Brussels . . 
Cologne . . 
Copen'gen 
Dantiic... 
Dresden . 
Hamburg . 
Lisbon ... 
Ast, old Pruss'n \ 
I mark ; others, ! 
'] Cologne mark j" 
^ of 1816 ) 
(Commercial ) 
{ mark, chang'd, > 
( 1818 J 
3613} 
37941 
3W.U 
3638! 
3603} 
3603} 
.-UK Mi'. 
3640 
3609 
9843 
3608.88 
3847.12 
3608 82 
Troyes mark . . 
(Goldsmiths') 
3608 
3683 
3608 
3608 
3541J 
am 
3550J 
, Cologne mark, ) 
- w't changed, V 
( 1818 ) 
Cologne mark 
Cologne mark . 
3602.03 
:::.|1 .il 
8740.19 
Lubeck . . . 
3740.11 
Madrid . . 
3648 
"iW 1 
Milan 
Paris . . . 
37771 
Stockholm 
Stuttgart 
Turin 
Mint mark . . 
Cologne mark . 
12711 1 
MlflJ 
8796 
ttiNil 
4330} 
3262 
3795 
3681} 
4833 
3609.14 
3796.08 
3C81.46 
8795!6o 
3680.60 
Venice . . . 
Vienna . . . 
f Goldsmiths' t 
( mark J 
Mint mark . . 
2. An Anglo-Saxon and early English money 
of account. In the tenth century it was estimated at 
100 silver pennies, but from the end of the twelfth century 
(or earlier) onward at 160 pennies or 13. 4<f. (in money of 
the time). The mark was never an Anglo-Saxon or Eng- 
lish coin, as Is often erroneously stated. 
There's a franklin In the wild of Kent hath brought 
three hundred marks with him in gold. 
Shak., 1 Hen. IV., 11. 1. 61. 
A special gentle, 
That is the heir to forty mark* a year. 
/-. Jonsan, Alchemist, 1. 1. 
3. A modern silver coin of the German empire, 
containing precisely 5 grams of fine silver, 
or 0.20784 of that in a United States silver 
dollar. German silver coins of the value of 2 marks, 
and gold coins of the value of 6, 10, and 20 marks, are also 
Obverse. Revene. 
German Mark. (Size of the original.) 
current, The gold coins contain 0.3684229 gram of flne 
gold per mark, the value of which is consequently .-< > 
4. A silver coin of Scotland issued in lG(i;i by 
Charles EL, worth at the time 13s. 4rf. Scotch 
(or 13 pence and one third of a penny KiiRlisli). 
The thiettr -inert (so called from its reverse type being a 
thistle) was a Scotch silver coin of the same value issued 
by James VI. In this sense commonly spelled n 
Hark banco, a money of account formerly used in Ham- 
burg, of the value of about :i.' I "nitril states cents: so 
railed In distinguish it frnm tin 1 mart roiirant, a coin of 
the value of about 28 Tnited States cents. The murk ban- 
co has not been used since the Franco-German war of 
1870- 1. (See also half-mark:) 
mark'H (miirk). r. i. [ME. mitrken, merken ; vav. 
of wurcA 1 *.] To march ; proceed. 
Thes drest for the dede and droghen to ship, 
And merlcit vnto Messam with a mekyll nany. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. 8.). 1. 51%. 
3t!H:: 
mark 4 (miirk). . ami n. [A variant of murk 1 , 
mirk.'] I. a. Dark. [Obsolete or provincial.] 
Tin- nyght waxed soon black as pycke, 
Then was the miste bothe marke and thycke. 
MS. Cantab, ft. U. 38, f. 201. (Halliieell.) 
II. a. Dark; darkness. 
He's throw the dark, and thn>w the mark, 
And throw the leaven <' green. 
Clerk Saunden (Child's Ballads, II. 320). 
markablet (mar'ka-bl), a. [< markl + -able.] 
Remarkable. 
II. would strike them with some markablc punish- 
ment. 
Sir E. Sandys, State of Religion, K. 1 b. (Kichardton. ) 
mark-boat (miirk'bot), . A boat anchored 
to mark a particular spot: in yacht-racing, to 
mark a turning- or finishing-point in the race ; 
in nautical surveying, to serve as a fixed point 
to angle upon. 
marked (miirkt), p. a. 1. Distinguishable, as 
if by means of a mark ; plainly manifest ; no- 
ticeable; outstanding; prominent. 
Be seems to have been afraid that he might receive some 
marked affront. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xx. 
The cheek is broad, and itn bone Is strongly marked. 
J. A. Symondt, Italy and Greece, p. 240. 
Light . . . does produce such marked effects. 
H. Spencer, Priu. of Biol., { 13. 
2. Subject to observation or notice; having 
notoriety, good or bad: as, his public spirit, 
or his suspicious conduct, makes him a marked 
man. 3. In music, with emphasis ; marcato. 
Marked pawn, in chess, a pawn on which some mark Is put 
to distinguish it as the piece withwhich a player undertakes 
to give checkmate. Marked proof, in eiujraving, a proof 
in which some unimportant detail is left unfinished, show- 
ing that the impression has been taken before the comple- 
tion of the plate. The marked end or pole of a mag- 
net, the north-seeking pole, often indicated by some mark 
on the needle. 
markedly (miir'ked-li), adv. In a marked man- 
ner; manifestly; noticeably; so as to excite at- 
tention. 
markee (milr-ke'), n. See marquee. 
marker (miir'ker), H. [< ME. 'marker, < AS. 
mearcere, a writer, notary, < mcarcian, mark: 
see mark 1 , p.] 1 . One who or that which marks. 
Specifically (a) One who marks the score at games, (b) 
In English schools and universities, the monitor who calls 
the roll at divine service, (c) Mttit., the soldier who Is the 
pivot round which a body of men wheels, or who marks 
the direction of an alinement. (d) Something used to 
mark a place, as a book-mark. 
2. A counter used in card-playing. 3. One 
who marks or notices; a close observer; hence, 
rarely, a marksman. 
The best marker may shoot a bow's length beside. 
Scott, Monastery, xviii. 
4. In ayrl., some implement used for tracing 
lines on the ground, as the position to be occu- 
pied by n row of plants or hills, or the like, it 
may be, for instance, a marking-plow, a form of three- 
tined harrow, or a removable attachment to a planter or 
plow. 
5. In a sewing-machine, an attachment for 
making upon the cloth, as it passes the needle, 
a slight crease that may serve as a guide_ for 
folding a tuck, or for another line of stitching ; 
a tuck-creaser. 6. A pen or stylus used for 
marking or recording. 
markest, An obsolete spelling of marquiK. 
market (mar ' ket), H. [< ME. market, < late 
AS. market = OFries. merked, merkad, market 
= D. markt = MLG. market, merkt = OHO. 
merkat, marchdt, MHG. market, markt, G. markt 
= Icel. niarkudlir = Sw. marknad = Dan. mar- 
ked = OF. 'market, markiet, marchet, F. mar- 
rhi- = 1'r. iinrcat = Sp. Pg. mercado = It. mer- 
cato, market, < L. mercatun, traffic, trade, a mar- 
ket, < mercart, pp. mereatus, trade: Beemercan- 
lile, merchant. Hence mart 1 . Cf. marchet, mer- 
chet, mcrcheta.~] 1. An occasion on which goods 
are publicly exposed for sale and buyers as- 
semble to purchase; the meeting together of 
people for selling and buying at private sale, 
as distinguished from an auction, where the 
sale is public. 
"Market is over for us to-day," said Molly Corney, in dis- 
appointed surprise. " We must make the best on 't, and 
sell to th' huxters." Mrs. Oaskett, Sylvia's Lovers, 1L 
And he answered, " What's the use 
Of this bragging up and down, 
When three women and one goose 
Make a market in your town?" 
LonafeUme, Wayside Inn, Saga of King Olaf, Ix. 
2. A public place or building where goods are 
exposed for sale; a market-place or market- 
house. 
A footsore ox in crowded ways 
stumbling across the market to his death. 
Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. 
market-beater 
3. The assemblage of people in a market: an, 
there was a large murki 1 to-day. 
What are known as the irtarket* In the stock exchange 
are limply groups <if Jobbers distributed here and there 
on the Boot of the house. Habit or convenience seemi to 
have determined the particular spots occupied, which are 
known a> the conaol market, the English railway market, 
the foreign stock market, and to on. 
Kncyc. Brit., XXIL 657. 
4. A place of purchase ami sale in general ; a 
city, country, region , or locality where anything 
is or may be bought or sold : as, the home or for- 
eign market (the count rv in which goods are pro- 
duced, or that to which they are transported or 
from which they are brought); the American 
or British market; the London market. 
There is a third thing to be considered how a market 
can be obtained for produce, or how production can be 
limited to the capacities of the market. ./. .V. Mill 
5. Traffic; trade; purchase or sale, or rate of 
purchase and sale; demand; hence,price; cost; 
worth; valuation: as, to make market; a ready 
market; a, dull market ; the market is low; there 
is no market for such goods. 
Second Pro. I prithee look what market she hath made. 
}-'tr*t Pro. Imprimis, sir, a good fat loin of million. 
MuMleton, Chaste Maid, 1L '. 
Strange ! how the frequent Interjected dash 
Quickens a market, and helps off the trash. 
Coirper, Charity, 1. 522. 
The market to-day has been more active than for a con- 
siderable time. ManchuHer (Jitardian, Dee. 16, 1880. 
6. In Eng.law: (n)The franchise orlibertygrant- 
ed to or enjoyed by a municipality or other body 
to establish a place, usually in an open space, 
for the meeting of people to buy and sell un- 
der prescribed conditions. (6) The assemblage 
of buyers and sellers on the day and within the 
hours appointed. The Importance of the distinction 
between a market and any other mart arose from (1) the 
necessity of public authority for making such use of a 
street or place, (2) the value of an exclusive franchise of 
this kind, and (''<) the rule of English law that a buyer in 
open market geta good title, though the seller may not 
have had good title. Clerk of the market. See derk. 
Court of the clerk of the market. See court. Mar- 
ket overt, in /.'":/. lav, open market ; a place where 
the public are invited to send and sell, and to come and 
buy. The peculiar feature of trade in market overt is that 
the buyer may get good title though the seller has not. 
Market price, the price a commodity will bring when 
sold in open market; price current. 
The market price of every particular commodity is regu- 
lated by the proportion which is actually brought to mar- 
ket and the demand of those who are willing to pay the 
natural price of the commodity, or the whole value of the 
rent, labour, and profit which must be paid in order to 
bring it thither. Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations. 
Market value, value established or shown by sales, pub- 
lic or private, in the ordinary course of business. See mar- 
ket pnce. To bull, corner, forestall, glut, hold the 
market. See the verbs. 
market (mar'ket), v. [< market, .] I. intranx. 
To deal in a market ; buy or sell ; make bar- 
gains for provisions or goods. 
II. trann. To carry to or sell in a market; make 
market or sale for; vend; sell: as, to market 
meat or vegetables; to market a crop. 
And rich bazaars, whither from all the world 
Industrious merchants meet, and market there 
The world's collected wealth. Hmtlu-ii, Thalana, iv. 
marketability (mar'ket-a-bU'j-ti), . [< mar- 
ketable: see -oility.} Capability of being mar- 
keted or sold; readiness of disposal; quick 
sale. 
Our government owes Its life to the credit of Its bonds. 
Their marketability alone furnished the means for nip- 
pressing the great rebellion. If. A. Ren., CXXXIX. 671. 
marketable (mar 'ket -a -bl), a. [< market + 
-able.'] 1. That may be marketed or sold; 
salable ; fit for the market. 
One of them 
Is a plain fish, and, no doubt, marketable. 
Shot., Tempest, T. 1. 268. 
2. Current in the market. 
Itie marketable values of any quantities of two commodi- 
ties are equal when they will exchange one for another. 
Locke. 
Marketable title, In the late of conveyancing, such a title 
as the court will compel a purchaser to accept, upon a 
contract to purchase which does not exempt the vendor 
from the full obligation of giving a clean and sufficient 
title : often used in contradistinction to good holding title, 
by which is meant a title which may without imprudt nrr 
be presumed sufficient, but may yet be subject to a doubt 
affecting the marketableness of the property. 
marketableness (mar'ket-a-bl-nes), n. The 
state of being marketable ; marketability. 
market-basket (mar'ket-bas'ket), n. A large 
basket used to cany marketing. 
market-beatert (mar'ket-be'ter), n. [< ME. 
miirkct-betere; < market + beater. Cf. marki l- 
dasT>er.~\ One who lounges about the market 
or in public ; a lounger. JTyclif. 
He was a market-bctere atte fulle. 
Chaucer, Reeve's Tale, L 16. 
