market-bell 
market-bell (miir'ket-bel), n. A bell giving 
notice that trade may begin or must cease in 
a market. 
Enter, go in ; the market-belt is rang. 
Shak., 1 Hen. VI., ill. 2. 16. 
In England, 
Market-cross, Royat (Puy-de- 
Dome), France; igth century. 
(From Viollet-le-Duc's "Dict.de 
1' Architecture." ) 
market-court (mar'ket-kort), re. 
a court held by jus- 
tices or by the clerk 
of a market, for the 
punishment of frauds 
and other offenses 
committed in the mar- 
ket. 
market-cross (mar'- 
ket-kros), re. A cross 
set up where a market 
is held. In medieval times 
most market-towns in Eng- 
land and Scotland, and in 
many parts of the continent, 
had a market-cross, some- 
times forming a monument 
of considerable size and elab- 
orate architecture. Many 
such crosses survive. See 
crossl, 2. 
These things indeed you 
have articulate, 
Proclaim'd at market-cross- 
es, read in churches. 
Shak., 1 Hen. IV., v. 1. 73. 
market-dashert 
(mar'ket-dash"er), n. 
[< ME. market-dasch- 
ere; < market + dasher.'] Same as market-beater. 
Prompt. Pan., p. 326. 
market-day (mar'ket-da), n. The day on which 
people go to market ; specifically, the fixed day 
on which a market is held in a town under a 
chartered privilege, 
marketer (mar'ket-er), re. 1. One who attends 
a market ; one who exposes anything for sale 
in a market. 
I sat down with a hundred hungry marketers, fat, brown, 
greasy men, with a good deal of the rich soil of Langnedoc 
adhering to their hands and boots. 
H. James, Jr., Little Tour, p. 157. 
2. One who goes to market; a purchaser of 
supplies ; a purveyor. 
In a butcher's shop there is a superficial sameness in 
the appearance of meat which it is the business of a good 
marketer to see through. Pop. Sci. Ho., XIII. 430. 
market-fish 1 (mar'ket-fish), n. A marketable 
fish; specifically, a codfish weighing from six 
to twelve pounds, suitable, in a fresh state, for 
ordinary markets. [Provincetown, Mass.] 
market-fish 2 (mar'ket-fish), n. A corruption 
of marr/ate-fish. 
market-garden (mar'ket-gar"dn), n. A garden 
in which vegetables and fruits are raised for 
the market. 
market-gardener (mar'ket-gard"ner), re. One 
who raises vegetables and fruits for sale. 
The mob of fishermen and market-gardeners ... at 
Naples yelled and threw up their caps in honour of Ma- 
saniello. Quoted in Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xii. 
market-geldt (mar'ket-geld), re. The toll of a 
market. 
market-house (mar'ket-hous), re. A building 
in which a market is held. 
Many an English market-town has an open market-house 
with arches, with a room above for the administration of 
justice or any other public purpose. 
E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 32. 
marketing (mar'ket-ing), n. [Verbal n. of 
market, V.] 1. The act of going to or transact- 
ing business in a market. 2. That which is 
bought or sold ; a supply of commodities from 
a market. 
market-Jew (mar'ket-jo), n. The chough, 
Pyrrkocorax graculus. Also called market-Jew 
crow and Jew-crow. 
market-lead (mar'ket-led), re. See market-pot. 
market-maid (mar'ket-mad), re. A maid-ser- 
vant awaiting hire in the market. 
You come not 
Like Caesar's sister, . . . but you are come 
A market-maid to Home. Shak., A. andC.,iii. 6. 51. 
marketman (mar'ket-man), n.; pi. marketmen 
(-men). 1. One who exposes provisions, etc., 
for sale in a market. 
Talk like the vulgar sort of market-men, 
That come to gather money for their corn. 
Shak., 1 Hen. VL, iii. 2. 4. 
2. One who buys in a market ; one who does 
marketing; one who makes purchases of sup- 
plies in a market. 
So worthless peasants bargain for their wives, 
As market-men for oxen, sheep, or horse. 
Shak., 1 Hen. VI., v. 5. 54. 
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market-master (mar'ket-mas"ter), re. An offi- 
cer having supervision of markets and the ad- 
ministration of laws respecting them. [Penn- 
sylvania.] 
market-pennyt (mar'ket-pen"i), n. Money for 
liquor on the market-day. Nares. 
market-place (mar'ket-plas), n. The place in 
which a market is held, usually an open space 
in a town set apart for the holding of markets. 
Beware of the scribes, which love . . . salutations in 
the market-places. Mark xii. 38. 
The market-place is very spacious and faire, being so 
large, both for bredth and length, that I never saw the like 
in all England. Coryat, Crudities, I. 6. 
market-pot (mar'ket-pot), re. In silver-refining, 
the pot at the end of the series of pots used in 
the Pattinson process, in the direction in which 
the amount of silver left in the lead is dimin- 
ished. It contains the "market-lead," or that part of the 
metal which is sufficiently desilverized to be sold as lead ; 
this is not expected to contain more than 10 pennyweights 
of silver to the ton. 
market-steadt (mar'ket-sted), re. A market- 
place. 
Their best archers plac'd 
The market-sUd about. 
Drayton, Polyolbion, xxii. 
market-town (mar'ket-toun), n. A town in 
which markets are held, by privilege, at stated 
times. 
Come, march to wakes and fairs and market-towns. 
Shak., Lear, iii. 6. 78. 
markgravet, An obsolete variant of mar- 
grave. 
markhor, markhoor (mar'kor, -kor), n. [Also 
markhore, markhur; an E. Ind. name.] An Asi- 
atic variety of wild goat, closely related to the 
common domestic goat, but having long, mas- 
sive, spirally twisted horns; Capra falconeri, 
also called C. megaceros and C. jerdoni. 
marking (miir'kiug), n. and a. [< ME. marking, 
< AS. mearcung, mercung, mwrctmg, a marking, 
description, verbal n. of mearcian, mark: see 
mark 1 , v.~\ I. re. 1. The act of impressing a 
mark upon something. 2. In coinage, the pro- 
cess of edge-rolling, or swaging the edge of the 
blank to prepare it for milling. 3. A mark or 
series of marks upon something ; characteris- 
tic arrangement of marks, as lines or dots, or 
of natural coloring: as, the markings on a bird's 
eggs, or of the petals of a flower ; the natural 
markings of a gem or of ornamental wood. 
There is ... no record of a tertiary marking on a dia- 
tom having been observed before. 
Jour. Roy. Micros. Sac., 2d ser., VI. ii. 321. 
Annular markings. See annular duct, under annular. 
Marking of goods, in Scots law, one of those forms of 
constructive delivery by which an attempt is made to 
transfer the property of a thing sold while the seller re- 
tains possession. Thus, the property of cattle sold while 
grazing is transferred by their being marked for the buyer, 
if in the herds or field of a third person. 
II. a. 1 . Making a mark ; hence, distinguish- 
ing; significant; striking. 
The most marking incidents in Scottish 
history Flodden, Darien, or the Forty- 
five were still either failures or defeats. 
R. L. Stevenson, The Foreigner at Home. 
2. Taking note; discerning; ob- 
servant. 
He [Mr. James Quin] had many requi- 
sites to form a good actor : an expressive 
countenance ; a 'marking eye ; a clear 
voice. Life of Quin (reprint 1887), p. 9. 
marking-gage (mar'king-gaj), n. 
A carpenters' tool for drawing 
lines parallel to an edge. It con- 
sists of a stem through one end of which 
a marking-point is driven perpendicular- 
ly, and upon which is a sliding block hav- 
ing its face toward the perpendicular 
point, and held at the desired distance by 
a set-screw. In use, the tracing-point is 
held in contact with the material to be 
marked, while the adjustable block is 
passed along its edge. 
marking-ink (mar'king-ingk), n. 
marking-iron (mar'king-Fern), re. A branding- 
iron. 
markingly (mar'king-li), adv. In an attentive 
manner; observantly; needfully. 
Pyrocles markingly hearkened to all that Dametas said. 
Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, iv. 
marking-machine (mar'king-ma-shen"), re. In 
coining, a machine used in the mint to swage 
the edges of coin-blanks, which it raises or 
throws up all around, preparatory to milling. 
marking-nut (mar'king-nut), re. The fruit of an 
East Indian tree, Semecarptts Anacardium : so 
called because it contains a juice used in mark- 
ing cloths. Also called Malacca bean, marsh-nut, and 
Marking-gage. 
See ink 1 . 
marl 
Oriental cashew-nut. See cashew-nut and beani. Mark- 
ing-nut oil, a painters' oil obtained from the kernels of 
marking-nuts. 
marking-plow (mar'king-plou), n. In agri., a 
plow used for making small furrows to serve 
as guides in various operations, as in plowed 
land for planting corn, or in a field to be marked 
out for planting an orchard. 
markist, markisest, Middle English spell- 
ings of marquis and marquisess. Chaucer. 
marklett (mark'let), re. [< mark 1 + -let.'] A 
mark ; a badge. 
I am sure men use not to weare such manes; I am also 
sure Souldiers use to weare other marklets or notadoes in 
time of battell. N. Ward, Simple Cobler, p. 32. 
markman (mark'man), re.; pi. markmeit (-men). 
If. Same as marksman. 
Sen. I aim'd so near, when I supposed you loved. 
Rom. A right good mark-man ! And she's fair I love. 
Shak., K.. and J., i. 1. 212. 
2. A member of a community owning a mark 
or joint estate in land. See mark 1 , n., 14. 
In the centre of the clearing the primitive village is 
placed ; each of the mark-men has there his homestead, 
his house, court-yard, and farm-buildings. 
Stubbs, Const. Hist., 24. 
markmote (mark'mot), re. [< mark + mote 1 .'] 
A council or deliberate assembly of markmen. 
The village assembly, or markmote, would seem to have 
resembled the town-meetings of New England. 
J. Finite, Amer. Pol. Ideas, p. 41. 
marksman (marks 'man), n. ; pi. marksmen 
(-men). [= Sw. marksman = Dan. mcerkeds- 
mand, standard-bearer; as mark's, poss. of 
mark 1 , + man.] 1. One who is skilful in shoot- 
ing with a gun or a bow ; one who readily hits 
the mark; a good shooter. 
But on an arm of oak, that stood betwixt 
The marks-man and the mark, his lance he fixt. 
Dryden, tr. of Ovid's Metamorph., viii. 
He was a fencer; he was & marksman; and, before he 
had ever stood in the ranks, he was already more than half 
a soldier. Macaulay, Hist. Eng. , xiii. 
2. One who, not being able to write, makes his 
mark instead of signing his name. [Rare.] 
If you can avoid it, do not have marksmen for witnesses. 
St. Leonards, Property Law, p. 170. (Encyc. Diet.) 
marksmanship (marks'man-ship), n. [< marks- 
man + -ship.] The character or skill of a 
marksman; dexterity in shooting at a mark. 
niarkswoman (marks'wum"an), n. ; pi. marks- 
women (-wim"en). A woman who is skilful in 
shooting at a mark, as with the bow. 
Less exalted but perhaps not less skilful markiwomen. 
Scott, St. Kenan's Well, xviii. 
mark-tooth (mark'toth), re. A horse's tooth so 
marked as to indicate to some extent his age. 
See mark 1 , n., 3. 
At four years old there cometh the mark-tooth [in horses], 
which hath a hole as big as you may lay a pea within it ; 
and that weareth shorter and shorter every year, tfll that 
at eight years old the tooth is smooth. 
Bacon, Nat. Hist., 754. 
mark-whitet (mark'hwit), re. The center of a 
target. 
With daily shew of courteous kind behaviour, 
Even at the marke-white of his hart she roved. 
Spenser, F. Q., V. v. 35. 
markworthy (mark'wer"THi), a. [< mark 1 + 
worthy."] Worthy of mark or observation ; de- 
serving of notice ; noteworthy. 
No spectacle is more markworthy than that which our 
common law courts continually offer. 
Sir E. Creasy, Eng. Const., p. 225. 
marl 1 (marl), n. [< ME. marl, marie, merle, < 
OF. marie, merle, F. marne D. MLG. mergel = 
OHG. mergil, MHG. Or. mergel = Sw. Dan. mer- 
gel, < ML. margila, marl, dim. of L. marga (> It. 
Sp. Pg. marga), marl. Perhaps a Celtic word: 
cf. Bret, marg, marl; but the W. marl, Ir. Gael. 
marla, marl, must be of E. origin.] A mixture 
of clay with carbonate of lime, the latter be- 
ing present in considerable quantity, forming 
a mass which is not consolidated, but falls to 
pieces readily on exposure to the air. The word 
marl, however, is used so vaguely as to be often ambigu- 
ous ; and in England some substances are thus designated 
in which there is no lime. Marl is a valuable fertilizing 
material for different kinds of soil, according to its com- 
position. In New Jersey the mixtures of greensand with 
clay much used as fertilizers arc commonly called marls. 
or greensand-marls, and many varieties thus designated 
contain no more than one or two per cent, of carbonate 
of lime. Marls and marly soils are especially well devel- 
oped in the Permian and Trlassic of England and on the 
continent. The upper division of the Keuper in England 
is known as the "Red Marl Series," and In places reaches a 
thickness of 3,000 feet. These marls are largely quarried 
at various points for making bricks. See shell-marl. 
For lacke of dounge in sondy lande be spronge 
Goode marl, and it wol make it nmltiplie. 
Palladim, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.X p. 180. 
