M A It 
marque, Fr.] A token by which any thing is known.— 
In the prefent form of the earth there are certain marks 
and indications of its firil date; with which if we com¬ 
pare thole things that are recorded in facred hillory, we 
may difcover what the earth was in its firlt original. Bur¬ 
net. —A token; an im predion.—At prefent there are fcarce 
any marks left of a fubterraneous fire; for the earth is cold, 
and overrun with grafs and ffirubs. Addifon. 
’Twas then old foldiers, cover’d o’er with fears, 
The marks of Pyrrhus, or the Punick wars. 
Thought all palt fervices rewarded well. 
If to their (hare at lead two acres fell. Drydtn, 
A proof; an evidence.—-As the confufion of tongues was 
a mark of reparation, fo the being of one language is a 
mark of union. Bacon. —The Argonauts failed up the Da¬ 
nube, and from thence palled into the Adriatic, carrying 
their (hip Argo upon their Ihoulders ; a mark of great 
ignorance in geography among the writers of that time. 
Arbuthnot on Coins. —Notice taken : 
The laws, 
Stand like the forfeits in a barber’s fhop. 
As much for mock as mark. Skakefpeare. 
Conveniency of notice.—Upon the north fea bordereth 
Stow, fo called, per eminentiam, as a place of great and 
good mark and fcope. Carew's Survey of Cornwall. —Any 
thing at which a millile weapon is directed.—France was 
a fairer mark to (hoot at than Ireland, and could better 
reward the conqueror. Davies. 
Be made the mark 
For all the people’s hate, the prince’s curfes. Denham. 
The evidence of a horfe’s age.—At four years old cometh 
the mark of tooth in horfes, which hath a hole as big as 
you may lay a pea within it; and weareth Ihorter and 
fhorter every year, till at eight years old the tooth is 
fmooth. Bacon's Natural Hi/lory. —See the article Far¬ 
riery, vol. vii. p. 329.—A character made by thofe who 
cannot write their names.—Lorenzo fign’d the bargain 
with his mark. Young. 
Here are marriage-vows for figning ; 
Set your marks that cannot write. Dryden. 
[Marque, Fr.] Licenfe of reprifals. [Marc, Fr.] A fum of 
thirteen (hillings and fourpence.—Thirty of thefe pence 
make a mancus, which Come think to be all one with a mark ; 
for that manca and mancufa is tranfiatetl, in ancient books, 
b.y marca. Camden's Remains —-Upon every writ for debt 
or damage, amounting to forty pounds or more, a noble 
is paid to fine, and fo for every hundred marks more a no¬ 
ble. Bacon. 
Mark, in matters of commerce and maniifaXure, a 
certain character ltruck, or impreffed, on various kinds of 
commodities, either to lliow the place where they were 
made, and the perfons who made them ; or to witnefs 
they have been viewed and examined by the officers or 
inagillrates charged with the infpeNion of that manufac¬ 
ture; or, lallly, to (how that the duties impofed thereon 
have been regularly acquitted. Thus are cloths, leathers, 
cutlery-ware, paper, plate, weights, meafures, &c. to be 
marked. The mark on goods alfo is what ascertains- the 
property or goodnefs thereof, &c. And if one man (hall 
ule the mark of another, to the intent to do him damage,- 
aXion upon the cafe lieth. 23 Eliz. c. 8. There is a mark 
(a letter) upon all goods (lamped at Goldfmiths’ hall, and 
upon all papers iflued from the Stamp.-cffice, by which 
thofe who are in the fecret know in what year any piece 
of plate, or any deed, receipt, agreement, &c. was 
ltamped.' 
Mark is alfo a particular fign or character, known cnly 
to the trader who pitches on it; whereby, being fixed to 
any commodity, he recolleXs the price it colt him. Thefe 
marks, othefwii'e called numeros, are taken according to 
the fancy of thofe who ule them ; bur, ordinarily, they 
are- cliofen from among the letters of the alphabet, each 
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having a relation to fome particular number of figures. 
The following may ferve as a model: 
~a\b\c \d\e \ f\g | A | 1 | k | / | m 
0 I 1 \ 2 I 3 I 4 1 5 I 6 I 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 20 
One example will give the ufe of this table. Suppofc 
I would put on a piece of fluff 37s. 6d. per ell. I put an 
m for 20s. an / 10s. an h for 7s. and a g for fid. fo that the 
feveral letters written after each other (obferving to fepa- 
rate (hillings from pence by points) will make This mark 
mlh. g. equal to 37s. 6d. or the fame fum might be written 
thus; b. Ik. g. il. 17s. fid. It is evident that the marks 
may be diverfified infinitely, by adding other figures to 
the letters, in lieu of thefe. And indeed ordinarily fome 
word of a proper number of letters, all different ones, is 
cliofen, that no relation may be traced among the letters. 
To MARK, v. a. To imprefs with a token, orevidence.* 
—For our quiet poffeffion of things ufeful,they are natu¬ 
rally marked where there is need. Grew's Cofm. 
Will it not be receiv’d. 
When we have mark'd with blood thofe fleepy two 
Of his own chamber, and us’d their very daggers, 
That they have don’t ? Shakejpeare's Macbeth. 
To notify as by a mark.—That which was once the index 
to point out all virtues, does now mark out that part of the 
world where lead of them refules. Decay of Piety. _To 
note ; to take notice of.— Mark them which caufe divi¬ 
sions contrary to the doXrine which ye have learned, and 
avoid them. Rom. xvi. 17. 
Alas, poor country ! 
Where fighs, and groans, and fhrieks that rend the air. 
Are made, not mark'd. Shakejpeare's Macbeth. 
To heed ; to regard as valid or important: 
Now fwear and call to witnefs 
Heav’n, hell, and earth, I mark it not from one 
That breathes beneath fuch complicated guilt. Smith. 
To MARK, v.n. To note; to take notice.—Men mark 
when they hit, and never mark when they mifs, as they 
do alfo of dreams. Bacon's EJJays. 
MARK (St.) the Evangelilt, otherwife called John 
Mark, (lee vol. xi. p. 208.) was the ion of Mary, a pious 
woman at Jerufalem, and an early believer, at whofe houfe 
the difciples were accuftomed to meet; he was alfo nephew 
to Barnabas, who was a Levite of Cyprus. From the latter 
circumltance, it feems to have been inferred by Cave and 
others, that Mark was a Levite; but without fufficient 
authority. Mark became an early convert to the Chrif- 
tian faith, and was inftruXed and confirmed in the princi¬ 
ples of that religion by the apoltles who reforted to his 
mother’s houfe, where he commenced his intimate con¬ 
nexion with St. Peter. To this friendly afylura that 
apoltle firlt repaired, when he was delivered out of prifon 
by an angel, as related AXs xii. 12. That deliverance 
took place in the year 44, about the fame time that Paul 
and Barnabas came to Jerufalem from Antioch, with 
contributions for the relief of the brethren in Judea dur¬ 
ing the time of a fevere fcarcity. Upon the return of 
thofe apollks of the Gentiles to Antioch, Mark accom¬ 
panied them ; and, when fome time afterwards they 
let out to propagate the Gofpel in other countries, 
he attended on them as an afiiftant in their labours. In 
this capacity he was with them in Cyprus; but, on their 
return to the continent, he quitted them at Perga in Pam- 
phylia, and went back to jerufalem, where he had the 
opportunity of converfing with'Peter and the other apol¬ 
tles. After Paul and Barnabas had finifhed their in¬ 
tended progrefs, they returned to Antioch, whither they 
were accompanied, or foon followed, by Mark. When 
they had fettled the affairs of the church in that city, 
Paul propofed to his fellow-apoltle that they (hould vifit 
the other churches which they had eliabliffied in the 
neighbouring countries ; to which propolal Barnabas af- 
fented, and’determined to take with them his nephew 
Mark. 
