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which is to be binding in cafe of marriage.—In a late 
draught of marriage-articles, a lady ftipulated with her 
hutband, that fhe fhall be at liberty to patch on which fide 
file pleafes. Addifon’s SpeElator. 
MARRIAGE-BED', /. The bed appropriated to a 
man and woman on their marriage. Lawful concubi¬ 
nage : 
I, by the honour of my marriage-bed. 
After young Arthur, claim this land for mine. Shakefpeare. 
To thefe, whom death again did wed, 
This grave’s the fecond marriage-bed. Crajhaw. 
Thereon his arms and once-lov’d portrait lay ; 
Thither our fatal marriage-bed convey. Denham. 
MARRI AGE-CHAM'BER, /. The chamber or apart¬ 
ment appropriated to the entertainment of the guelts at a 
•wedding. The bed-room of a married couple.-—Thou 
{halt come into the marriage-chamber. Tob. vi. 16. 
MARRI AGE-DA'Y, /. A wedding-day, the day on 
which any one is married.—Neither her worthinefs, which 
in truth was great, nor his own fuffering for her, which 
is wont to endear affection, could fetter his fickleuefs; 
but, before the marriage-day appointed, he had taken to 
wife Baccha, of whom fhe complained. Sidney. 
MARRI AGE-HOUR, / The time of marriage, the 
hour of marriage, the time of the day in which marriages 
may be lawfully folemnized.—Virgin,awake! the marriage- 
-hour is nigh. Pope. 
MARRI AGE-POR'TION,yi The portion of one given 
in marriage. 
MARRIAGE-SET'TLEMENT, f. A legal aft, pre¬ 
vious to marriage, whereby a jointure is fecured to the 
wife after the death of the hufband. Thefe fettlements 
feem to have been in ufe among the ancient Germans, and 
their kindred nation the Gauls. Of the former Tacitus 
gives us this accounts “ Dotem non uxor marito, fed 
uxori maritus, aftert: interfunt parentes et propinqui, et 
munera probant.” De Mor. Germ. c. 18.. And Csefar, 
De Bell. Gallic, lib. vi. c. 18, has given us the terms of 
a marriage-fettlement among the Gauls, as nicely calcu¬ 
lated as any modern jointure. “ Viri, quantas pecunias 
ab uxoribus dotis nomine acceperunt, tantas ex fuis bonis, 
seftimatione fafta, cum dotibus communicant. Hujus 
omnis pecuniae conjunftim ratio habetur, fruftufque fer- 
vantur. Uter eorutn vita fuperavit, ad eura pars utriufque 
cum fruftibus fuperiorum temporum pervenit.” See an 
excellent marriage-fettlement by Blackftone, in the Ap¬ 
pendix to the fecond volume of his Commentaries. 
MARRIAGE-TI'E,^ Wedlock, the contract of mar¬ 
riage : 
Give me to live and die 
A fpotlefs maid, without the marriage-tie. Dryden. 
MARRIAGEABLE, adj. Fit for wedlock ; of age to 
be married.—Every wedding, one with another, produces 
four children ; and that is the proportion of children which 
any marriageable man or woman may be prefumed fhall 
have. Graunt. —I am the father of young heirefs, whom 
I begin to look upon as -marriageable. SpeElator. —When 
the girls are twelve years old, which is the marriageable 
age, their parents take them home. Swift.— Capable of 
union : 
They led the vine 
To wed her elm ; (lie fpous’d about him twines 
Her marriageable arms, and with her brings 
Her dow’r, th’ adopted duffers, to adorn 
His barren leaves. Milton. 
MARRIAGEABLENESS, /. Fitnefs for marriage. _ 
MAR'RICA, a cape on the fouth-eaft coaft of Arabia. 
Lat. 18. 30. N. Ion. 56. 25. E. 
MAR'RIED, adj. Conjugal ; connubial.—-Thus have 
you ffiun’d the -marry'd ftate. Dryden. 
MARRING,./! The aft of injuring, or of fpoiling. 
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MARRIO'NA, a bay of the ifland of Antigua : two 
miles fouth of Willoughby Bay. 
MAR'RO, a river of Naples, which runs into the fea 
eight miles fouth of Nicotera. 
MAR'ROQUIN,y. in commerce; morocco, a kind of 
fine leather. 
MARROS'SE, an ifland in the Eaft Indian Sea, near 
Antongil Bay, in the ifland of Madagafcar. This ifland 
affords plenty of lemons and pine-apples, with an ample 
iupply of fruit, fowls, and frelh meat. 
MAR'ROW, /. [mejig, Sa x./merr, Erfe ; fmergh, Scot.] 
An oleaginous fubftance contained in the bones. See the 
article Anatomy, vol. i. p. 526, 7.—The Ikull hath brains 
as a kind of marrow within it 5 the back-bone hath one 
kind of marrow, and other bones of the body have another ; 
the jaty-bones have no marrow fevered, but a little pulp of 
marrow diffufed. Bacon. 
He bit the dart, and wrench'd the wood away. 
The point itill buried in the marrow lay. Addi/on. 
The marrow has blood-veflels, both veins and arteries. 
The organs by which the medullary oil is feparated. are 
fra all veficlesor glandules, which are conglomerated into 
diftinft lobules, contained in feveral membranes or bags, 
which lie in one common membrane, invefiing the whole 
marrow ; all which veficles, bags, and membranes, are pro¬ 
pagated from the exterior coat of the arteries. The paf- 
fage of the medullary oil from all parts of the marrow to the 
bone is not by dufts, but by pores formed in the veficles, 
by which it pafles from one to another, till it arrives at the 
fides or extreme parts of the bone. The medullary oil, 
which is fupplied to the interftices of the joints, pafles 
into them by paffages penetrating through the bone into 
thefe cavities, and formed for this end. The ufe of the 
medullary oil is either common to all the bones, or more 
proper to the joints. It is necefl'ary to preferve the temper 
of the bones, and prevent them from being brittle. In 
the articulations, 1. It lubricates the extremities of the 
bones, and fo makes them more eafy to be moved. 2. It 
preferves the ends of the articulated bones from an inordb* 
nate incalefcence, 3. It prevents the attrition of thofe 
parts of the bones which are rubbed one againft another. 
It is likewife beneficial to the ligaments of the joints, in 
prefer.ving them from drynefs and rigidity, and lubricating 
thofe parts of them which Aide upon the bone. Thole 
cartilages alfo which are joined to any of the bones it pre¬ 
ferves flexible. Phil. Tran/, vol. xvii. p. 544. 
MAR'ROW, f. \niari , Fr. hufband.] In the Scot,tifh 
dialed, denotes a fellow, companion, or aflociate ; as alfo 
equal match ; He met with his marrow : 
Though buying and felling doth wonderful wel, 
Yet chopping and changing I cannot commend 
With theef or his marrow, for fear of ill end. Tvffer. 
MAR'ROW-BONE, f. A bone containing marrow. 
—In burlefque language, the knees.—Upon this he fell 
down upon his marrow-bones, and begged of J.upiter to give 
him a pair of horns. VFjir.ange. —T)own on your marrow¬ 
bones, upon your allegiance; and make an acknowledg.- 
ment of your offences; for I will have ample fatisfaftion. 
Dryden’s Spanifh Fryar. 
MARROWFAT, /. A kind of pea.. 
MARROWLESS, adj. Void of marrow: 
Thy bones are marrowlefs, thy blood is cold ; 
Thou haft no ('peculation in thofe eyes, 
Which thou doff glare with. Shake/peare’s Macbeth. 
MARRUBIAS'TRUM, f. in botany. See Ballota, 
Leonurus, and Stachys. 
MARRU'BIUM, /. [derivation uncertain.] Hore- 
hound ; in botany, a genus of the clafs didynamia, or¬ 
der gymnofpermia, natural order of verticillatae, (labiatse, 
Tourn. and JuJf.) . Generic characters—Calyx: perianth 
one-leafed, falver-fhaped, rigid, ten-ftre.aked ; mouth 
equal, patulous, often ten-toothed; toothlets alternate, 
’ lhialler. 
