marrow 
It takes 
From our achievements, though perform'd at height. 
The pith and tnarrmc of our attribute. 
Sha/r., Hamlet, 1. 4. 22. 
He never pierces the marrow of your habits. 
Lamb, My Relations. 
For this, thou slialt from all things suck 
Marruic of mirth and laughter. 
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marrowy (mar'o-i;, a. [<wnwl +-// 1 .] Full 
of marrow; strong; energetic; hence, in dis- 
course or writing, pithy, forcible, effective, etc. 
A rich marrowy vein of internal sentiment. Uazlitt. 
Marrowy and vigorous manhood. 0. W. Holmes. 
Marrubieae (mar-6-bi'e-e), n. pi [NL. (Ben- 
mirth and laughter. tham, 1848), < Marrubiiim + -ete.] A subtribe of 
Tennyson, w 01 Waterproor ^ ^ inelude d in the tribe Machydea: 
::,<?> jiSftJtffS*! " e 'L' It is characterized by a tubular or bell-shaped calyx, with 
Vegetable marrow. ^~, 
Cucurbita Pepu, the oblong fruit of which is used as a vege- 
table in England. (V) The alligator-pear. See avocado. 
marrow 1 (mar'6), )'. t. [< marrow*-, .] To fill 
with marrow or with fat. [Rare.] 
They can . . . devour and gormandize beyond excess, 
and wipe the guilt from off their marroived mouths. 
Quarles, Judgement and Mercy, The Drunkard. (Latham.) 
He was fresh-sinewed every joint, 
Each bone wrf-marrowed as whom gods anoint 
Though mortal to their rescue. Browning, Sordello. 
marrow 2 (mar'6), . [< ME. marowc, marwe; 
origin obscure. Cf. moral 2 , which is perhaps a 
corruption of marrow. ] A companion or mate ; 
an associate; an intimate friend; a fellow; 
hence, one of a pair of either persons or things ; 
a match : as, your knife 's the very marrow o' 
mine. [Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] 
Birds of a f ethere best fly together, 
Then like partners about your market goe ; 
Marrowes adew ; Gcd send you fayre wether. 
Promos and Cassandra, I. ii. 4. (Nares.) 
If I see all, ye're nine to ane ; 
An that's an unequal marrow. 
rather prominent ribs and a corolla-tube which is included 
or slightly exserted. It embraces 4 genera, of which Mar- 
rubium is the type, and about 80 species. 
Marrubium (ma-ro'bi-um), n, [NL., < L. )- 
riMnm, hoarhound.] A genus of plants belong- 
ing to the natural order LaMaUe, and the tribe 
8tachydea>, type of the snbtribe Marrubiew. It is 
characterized fiy an included corolla-tube, with the lower 
lip nearly flat or concave, and by having the nutlets 
rounded at the apex and the anther-cells nt length con- 
fluent. They are perennial herbs, often tomentose or 
woolly, with wrinkled leaves, and small usually white or 
purple flowers in dense axillary clusters. About 33 spe- 
cies have been described, from Europe. North Africa, and 
extratropk'al Asia. One species, M. milgare, the common 
or white hoarhound, is very widely distributed (perhaps 
indigenous to America), and is sometimes used medici- 
nally. See hoarhound. 
marram (mar'um), n. Same as marram. 
marry 1 (mar'i), v. ; pret. and pp. married, ppr. 
tnarrying. [< ME. maryen, marien, < OF. (and 
F.) marier = Pr. Sp. inaridar = It. maritare, < 
L. maritare, wed, marry, < maritus, a husband, 
marita, a wife, as an adj., mart tux, pertaining 
The Dowy Dens of Yarrow (Child's Ballads, III. 67). to marriage, conjugal; orig. appar. only as fern. 
Busk ye, busk ye, my bonnie, bonnie bride! adj. marita, provided with a husband (cf. vidii- 
Busk ye, busk ye, my winsome marrow! tls deprived of one's wife, ndua, deprived of 
W. Hamilton, Braes of Yarrow. one>g hugban(li orig . on ] v f^., a w i<jovv: see 
marrow 2 (mar'6), c. t. [< marrow"*, <.] To as- 
sociate with ; hence, to match ; fit. [Prov. Eng. 
and Scotch.] 
marrow 3 t, [< ME. "marowe, merowe, < AS. 
meant (mearw-, merw-, nuerw-, myrw-) = OHG. 
widow), as if fern. pp. of a verb 'marirc, pro- 
vide with a husband, < mas (mar-), a man, hus- 
band: see masculine, male 1 .] I. trans. 1. To 
unite in wedlock or matrimony ; join for life, 
, , , as a man and a woman, or a man or woman to 
marawi, maro, MHG. mar (marw-) (also, with one of the opposite sex; constitute man and 
variation, MD. murwe, morwe, T>. murw = OHG. wife, or a husband or wife, according to the 
laws or customs of a nation. 
When I said I would die a bachelor. I did not think I 
should live till I were married. 
Shalt., Much Ado, ii. 8. 25S. 
Tell him that he shall marry the couple himself. 
day, The What d'ye Call it. 
muntici, miinci, MHG. miirwe, mm; G. miirbe), 
soft. Cf. mellow.] Soft; tender. 
marrow-bone (mar'6-bon), n. [Formerly also 
and still dial, wary-bone; < ME. *marwe-bon, 
marie bone; < marrow^ + bonel. The conjec- 
ture that marrow-bones, in the second sense, is 
a "corruption of Mary-bones, in allusion to the 2. To give in marriage ; cause to be married, 
reverence paid to the Virgin Mary by kneeling," He wolde have maryed me f ulle highely, to a gret Princes 
is absurd. The use is doubtless a mere whim- Daughtre. zif I wolde han forsaken my Lawe and my Be- 
sical application of the word.] 1. A bone con- 
taining fat or edible marrow. See marrow^, 1. 
A cook thei hadde with hem for the nones, 
To boylle chyknes with the mary bones, 
And pondre-marchant tart, and galyngale. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 380. 
2. pi. The bones of the knees; the knees. 
[Humorous.] 
Down he fel vpon his maribones, & pitteously prayd me 
to forgeue him y e one lye. Sir T. More, Works, p. 727. 
Down quickly 
On your marrow-bones, and thank this lady t 
Beau, and Ft., Honest Man's Fortune, v. 8. 
3. A large bone used to make a rhythmical 
noise by striking against something. 
Even the middle class were glad to get rid of the noise 
of drums, etc. (which still survives in the marrow bones 
and cleavers the rough music of a lower-class wedding). 
J. Ashton, Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, I. 35. 
To ride In the marrow-bone coach, to go on foot. 5. 
[Slang.] 
marrow-cells (mar'6-selz), n. pi. Cells resem- 
bling white blood-corpuscles, but larger, with 
clearer protoplasm and relatively larger nu- 
cleus. 
marrowfat (mar'o-fat), . A kind of tall- 
growing, wrinkled pea. 
marrowish (mar'o-ish), a. [< marrow 1 + -isli 1 .] 
Of the nature of or resembling marrow. 
In the upper region serving the animall faculties, the 
chiefe organ is the braine, which is a soft, marrmmsh, and 
white substance. Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 19. 
marrowless 1 (mar'o-les), a. [< marrow 1 + 
-less.] Without marrow; not medullary. 
Thy bones are inarrowless, thy blood is cold. 
Shak., Macbeth, iii. 4. 94. 
marrowless 2 (mar'o-les), . [< marrow? + 
-less.'] 1. Without a match; unequaled. 2. 
Not matching, as two things of the same kind, 
but not the same color, fit, etc. [Scotch.] 
marrow-pudding (mar'6-pud'ing), n. A pud- 
ding prepared from or with beef -marrow or the 
variety of gourd known in England as vegetable 
marrow. l w '" " lfl ' T i/ one day. 
leve. Mandevttle, Travels, p. 36. 
Ych wol the marie wel with the thridde part of mylonde 
To the noblest bachelor that thyn herte wol to stonde. 
Rob. of Gloucester, p. 30. 
An Example of one of the Kings of France, who would 
not marry his Son without the Advice of his Parliament. 
Howell, Letters, I. iii. 8. 
3. To take for husband or wife: as, a man 
marries a woman, or a woman marries a man. 
Friar. You come hither, my lord, to marry this lady? 
Claudia. No. 
Leonato. To be married to her : friar, you come to marry 
her. Shak., Much Ado, IT. 1. 4. 
4. Figuratively, to unite intimately or by some 
close bond of connection. 
Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord ; for I am 
married unto you. Jer. iii. 14. 
Marrying his sweet noates with their silver sound. 
W. Bromie. Britannia's Pastorals, i. 5. 
, to fasten together, as two ropes, end 
Ropes joined by marrying. 
to end, in such a way that in unreeving one 
from a block the other is drawn in. 
To marry is to join ropes together for the purpose of 
reeving, by placing their ends together and connecting 
them by a worming. Totten, Naval Diet. 
=Syn. 3. To wed, espouse. 
fi. in trans. To enter into the conjugal state ; 
take a husband or a wife. 
I will therefore that the younger women marry. 
1 Tim. v. 14. 
Shak.,V.ol E.,ii. 1. 42. 
marrow-spoon (mar'6-spon), . A long nar- marry 2 (mav'i), interj. [< ME. Mary, Marie, the 
row spoon for scooping out marrow from bones, name of the Virgin Mary, invoked in oaths.] 
marrow-Squash (mar'6-skwosh), . Vegetable Indeed! forsooth! a term of asseveration, or 
marrow. Sec squash. [U. S.] used to express surprise or other feeling. 
Marsdenia 
Ye, sir, and wol ye so ? 
Marie ! therof I pray yow hertely. 
Chaucer, Canon's Yeoman's Tale, 1. 51. 
Col. Wilt thou be pleased to hearken once again to the 
suit I made to thee? 
Ste. Marry, will I ; kneel and repeat it 
Shak., Tempest, iii. 2. 4. 
(The word was formerly much used, with various additions, 
to express surprise, contempt, or satirical encouragement, 
as in the phrases following.] Marry come up! some- 
times many come out ! indeed ! 
Give my son time, Mr. Jolly '.' marry come up. 
Cou'ley, Cutter of Coleman Street (16B3). (Sam.) 
Marry gept (also gap, glp), for marry goupt(theorigi- 
nal form not found). Same ns many come up. The form 
marry yip may be due in part to the oath Dy Mary Gipsy, 
or 'by St. Mary of Egypt,' found in Skelton. 
Harry yip, goody She-justice, mistress French hood. 
B. Jontton, Bartholomew Fair, i. 
" I thought th' had'st scorn'd to budge a step 
For fear." Quoth Echo, Marry guep. 
Butter, Hudibras, I. iii. 202. 
Fair and softly, son ; at her ; marry yap, pray keep your 
distance, and make a fine leg every time you speak to her ; 
be sure you behave yourself handsomly. 
Unnatural Mother (1G98). (Nares.) 
Marry trapt. A doubtful phrase, apparently an error (for 
marry gap'!) in the following passage : 
Be avised, sir, and pass good humours : I will say marry 
trap with you, if you run the nuthook's humour on me. 
Shah., M. W. of W., i. 1. 170. 
marrying (mar'i-ing), p. a. Disposed to marry ; 
in a condition to marry. Marrying man, a man 
likely or disposed to marry. 
I don't think he's a marrying man. 
Trollope, Dr. Thorne, vi. 
I think Miss Anville the loveliest of her sex ; and, were I 
a marrying man. her, of all the women I have seen, I would 
fix upon for a wife. Mine. D'Arblay, Evelina, letter Ixxvi. 
marrymuffet(mar'i-muf),. 1. Agannentmen- 
tioned in 1640. 2. A material, apparently an 
inexpensive and rough stuff, for men's wear. 
Mars (marz), . [L. Mars (Mart-), OL. MIII-OI-K 
(Mavort-) ; also Mannar, Oscan Mamers (Ma- 
mert-), Mars.] 1. A Latin deity, identified at 
an early period by the Romans with the Greek 
Ares, with whom he had originally no connec- 
tion. He was principally worshiped as the god of war, 
and as such bore the epithet Gradivus; but he was earlier 
regarded as a patron of agriculture, which procured him 
the title of Silvanus, and as the protector of the Roman 
state, in virtue of which he was called Quirinus. In works 
of art Mars is generally represented as of a youthful but 
powerful figure, armed with the helmet, shield, and spear ; 
in other examples he is bearded and heavily armed. See 
cut under Ares. 
The mailed Mars shall on his alter sit 
Up to the ears in blood. 
Shale., 1 Hen. IV., iv. 1. 117. 
2. The planet next outside the earth in the 
solar system. Its diameter (about 4,200 miles) Is only 
0.53 that of the earth, its superficies 0.28, and its vol- 
ume 0.147. Its mean density is 0.71 that of the earth, 
so that the density of its crust may very likely be about 
the same as the earth's ; but the weight of a given mass 
at the surface of Mars is only three eighths of the weight 
of the same mass on the earth. The strength of materials 
is therefore relatively much greater there, and mountains, 
animals, and buildings would naturally be much larger. 
The mean distance from the sun is 141,500,000 miles. The 
eccentricity of its orbit is very much greater than that of 
the earth, being 0.093 in place of 0.017 ; the inclination of 
its equator to its orbit is about the same. Its day is half 
an hour longer than ours. Its year is 087 of our days. The 
surface of Mars has been carefully mapped, and is charac- 
terized by the predominance of land and the great num- 
ber of canals or straits. Its color is strikingly red. Its 
climate is, perhaps, not very different from that of the 
earth. It has two moons, discovered by Professor Asaph 
Hall in Washington in 1877. conformably to the prediction 
of Kepler, and realizing the fancies of Swift and of Voltaire. 
The inner of these, Phobos, revolves in less than 8 hours, 
so that to an observer on the planet It rises in the west and 
sets in the east ; the outer, Deimos, revolves in 30 hours, so 
that it appears nearly stationary for a long time. The sym- 
bol of Mars is , which seems to show the shield and spear 
of the god. 
They have discovered two lesser stars, or satelliU-s, 
which revolve about Mars, whereof the innermost . . . 
revolves in the space of ten hours, and the outermost in 
twenty-one and a half. Su-ift, Gulliver's Travels, III. iii. 
3f. In old o7iew., iron. 4. In Tier., the tincture 
red, when blazoning is done by the planets : see 
blazon Mars brown, yellow, etc. See the nouns. 
Marsala (mar-sa'la), . [See def.] A class of 
white wines produced in Sicily, especially in 
the region about Marsala on the western coast. 
There are many brands, of which the best possess a very 
delicate flavor and have a general resemblance to Madeira, 
but are usually lighter. 
marsbankert, marsbunkert, n. Obsolete forms 
of mimslinnl'fi'. 
Marsdenia (mars-de'ni-a), . [NL. (R. Brown. 
1811), named after William Ifafgaen (1/54- 
1836), a British orientalist.] A genus of plants 
of the natural order Axvliyiailea; the milkweed 
family, type of the tribe A/iirxilcnii-a: It is char- 
acterized liy having the crown adnatr to the stamen-tube, 
and composed of five flat scales which are free at the apex. 
