He presents him with a white horse, a manto, or blacke coole, [cowl,] a pastoral staff, &c. Ricaut. State of the Greek Church, p. 96. Which th' ancients wisely signified, By the yellow manteaus of the bride. Pudibras, pt. iii. c. 1. 'Tis thine for sleeves to teach the shantiest cuts, Give empty coxcombs more important struts, Prescribe new rules for knots, hoops, manteaus, wigs. Warton. Fashion, a Salire. A lady cannot greatly complain of the liberty of the press, if it is contented with the humble task of celebrating the workmanship of her mantua-maker.-Observer, No. 94. 1 Dut. mentel, A. S. Mantel, mentel; Ger. MANTEL, or MA'NTLE, V. MA'NTLE, n. Manteau; It. Mantello; Sp. MA'NTLET. Manta; Lat. Mantelium; Low. Lat. Mantum. "Scandice (says Hickes) Mattul vel Mottul est Pallium, more Septentrionalium Gothorum, qui ab n ante t vel d abhorrent,"(Gram. Franco-Theotisca, p. 96.) The Gr. Mavovas was the name of a kind of military vest among the Persians; and from this word some etymologists derive our mantle; others from the Gr. Ιματιον : see in Junius. The most general appli cation is to A cloak or coverlet; and from this application the others appear to take their origin. A mantel to a fire-place or chimney, (see the quotations from Wotton,) to hide or cover them, and "convert even the conduits of soot and smoak into ornaments," (Wotton.) A mantelet, a covering, constructed for the protection of miners, besiegers, &c. To mantle, to cover, to cloke, to hide, to overspread. To mantle, (as a hawk,)-to unfold, and overspread the wings, like a mantel, (Skinner,) To mantle, (as fermented liquors,)-to rise and overspread (sc.) with fume or froth; to spread, to extend or expand; to spread in luxuriant growth, (as the vine,) to grow luxuriantly, to luxuriate, to wanton. Hyre body wyth a mantel, a wympel aboute her heued. R. Gloucester, p. 338. And gaderiden to him al the company of knyghtis, and unclothiden him and diden aboute him a reed mantel. Wiclif. Matthew, c. 27. Night with his mantel, that is derke and rude, Gan oversprede the hemisperie aboute. Chaucer. The Marchantes Tale, v. 9670. A mantelet upon his shouldres hanging, Ne is ther hauke which mantleth on her pearch, Martius. Come I too late? Bp. Hall, b. iv. Sat. 4. Com. I, if you come not in the blood of others, But mantled in your owne. Upon the mantle-tree, for I am a pretty curious observer, stood a pot of lambative electuary, with a stick of liquorish. Tatler, No. 266. If, with hopes, As fond as false, the darkness I expect Dryden. The Flower and the Leaf. His purple mantle boasts the dye of Tyre, And in the sun beam glows with living fire. Mickle. Luciad, b. ii. She deems all safe, for she has paid the price: No charity but alms ought values she, Except in porc'lain on her mantle-tree.-Cowper. Charily. Fr. Manuel; It. Manuale; Sp.Manual; Lat. Manualis, from manus, the hand. Handy, of or pertaining to the hand, wrought or done with the hands; having hands. A manual, (Gr. Εγχειρίδιον,)— A handy (book), or a book that may be held or carried in the hand. MANUAL, adj. MANUAL, n. MANUARY, adj. MA'NUARY, 2. I see not what would follow any more then the common verse of the compute manuell.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1111. For their country [Arabia] was always barren and desert, wanting manual arts whereby to supply the naturals with furniture.-Ralegh. History of the World, b. ii. c. 20. s. 4. What learning is that, which the seas, or Alpes, or Pyrenees, have engrossed from us? what profession either beene at least equalled by our home-bred islanders? liberall, or manuary, wherein the greatest masters haue not Bp. Hall. Quo Vadis? 8. 9. There are some special gifts of the Spirit, which we call charismata, which do no more argue a right to the sonship of God, than the manuary's infused skill of Bezaleel and Aholiab could prove them saints.-Id. Ser. Rom. viii. 14. Parents deprived of hands, beget manual issues, and the defect of those parts is supplied by the idea of others. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. vii. c. 2. It importeth greatly the good of all men that God be reverenced, with whose honour it standeth not that they which are publiquely imployed in his seruice, should liue of base and manuari trades.-Hooker. Eccl. Politie, b. v. § 81. Train'd to the manual fight, and bruiseful toil, P. Whitehead. The Gymnasiad, b. 1. A well organized and very pliant hand may determine to Occupations requiring manual dexterity. Beddoes. On Mathematical Evidence, p. 63. Note. MANUDUCTION. From the Lat. Manus, MANUDU'CTOR. the hand, and ductio, a leading, (from ducere, to lead.) A leading by the hand; a leading, guiding, or directing. Nature and Grace, which have their hands in this manuduction both ways, stand in perpetual opposition to each other.-Bp. Hall. Scr. Rom. viii. 14. Love be your manuductor; may the tears Jordan. Poems, before 1660. The mantled meadows mourne; That [original] of Nilus hath been attempted by many, Their sundry colours tourne. and by some to that despair of resolution, that they have Spenser. Shepheard's Calender. November. only referred it unto the providence of God, and his secret manuduction of all things unto their ends. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. vi. c. 8. Now this is a direct manuduction to all kind of sin, by Shakespeare. Coriolanus, Act i. sc. 6. abusing the conscience with undervaluing persuasions, concerning the malignity and guilt even of the foulest. South, vol. ii. Scr. 6. Fr. Manufacturer; It. n. Manifattura; Sp. Manufactura; from Lat. Manus, the hand, and acere, factum, to do, to And under the blacke vele of guilty night, The swan with arched neck Id. Ib. b. vii. From them [Italians] we may better learn, both how to raise fair mantles within the rooms, and how to disguise gracefully the shafts of chimneys abroad (as they use) in sundry forms.-Reliquia Wottonianæ, p. 37. The Italians apply it [plastick] to the mantling of chimneys with great figures, a cheap piece of magnificence. Id. p. 63. MANUFACTORY. MANUFACTURE, v. MANUFACTURE, n. MANUFACTURER. MANUFACT. make. To make with the hand, to work with the hand; to frame or form, to make up with the hand: gcnerally, and met. to fashion, frame, or form, to work or make up. This law pointed at a true principle; that where forraine materials are but superfluities, forraine manufactures should bee prohibited. For that will either banish the superfluitie, or gaine the manufacture.-Bacon. Hen. VII. p. 215. Therefore his grace prayes you to take into consideration matter of trade, as also the manufacturers of the kingdome, and to represse the bastard and barren imployment of moneyes, to vsurie and vnlawfull exchanges. Bacon. Hen. VII. p. 59. A great part of the linen manufac! is done by women and children.-Maidman. Naval Speculations, (1691,) p. 312. In places, wherein thriving manufactories have erected themselves, land has been observed to sell quicker, and for more years' purchase than in other places, as about Hallifax in the North, Taunton and Exeter in the West. Locke. On the Lowering of Interest, &c. A trading and manufacturing country naturally purchases with a small part of its manufactured produce, a great part of the rude produce of other countries. Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. iv. c. 9. By means of trade and manufactures, a greater quantity of subsistence can be annually imported into a particular country, than what its own lands, in the actual state of their cultivation, could afford.-Id. Ib. Our woollen manufacturers have been more successful than any other class of workmen, in persuading the legis lature that the prosperity of the nation depended upon the success and extension of their particular business. from slavery or servitude, to enfranchise. To deliver or set at liberty, to liberate, to free Then Valerius judging that Vindicius the bondman had well deserved also some recompence, caused him not onely to be manumissed by the whole grant of the people, but made him a free man of the city besides: and he was the first bondman manumissed, that was made citizen of Rome. North. Plutarch, p. 85. Long after that, and very lately, Appius, to curry favour with the common people, made it lawfull for bondmen manumissed, to give their voices also in elections, as other citizens did and unto this day the perfect manumissing and freeing of bondmen, is called vindicta, after the name of this Vindicius, that was then made a free man.-Id. Ib. Then whereto serves it to have been enlarg'd Daniel. Musophilus. These matters being thus finished the Cipres man is manumitted and sette at libertie as a free man againe. Stow. Edw. III. an. 1350. Our dear departed brother lies in state, His heels stretch'd out, and pointing to the gate:. And slaves now manumis'd on their dead master wait. Dryden. Persius, Sat. 4. Villeins might be enfranchised by manumission, which is either express or implied: express, as where a man granted to the villein a deed of manumission. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. ii. c. 6. Yet Pausanias, speaking of the same period, says, that all the Achæans able to bear arms, even when several manumitted slaves were joined to them, did not amount to 15,000. MANU'RE, v. MANU'RE, n. MANU'RABLE. MANU'RAGE. MANU'RANCE. MANU'REMENT. Hume, pt. ii. Ess. 11. The same word as Manœuvre, (qv.) by the mere corruption of auvre into ure; to work with the hand, and applied to such work employed, To cultivate; to cultivate land, to till it; (as more restrictedly applied) to cultivate by the addition of other substances, e. g. different soil or earth, dung, mixtures, or mixens, &c.; and thus, to improve, to enrich, to fertilize. Sir T. Smith uses it as equivalent to manage. To whom we gaue the strond for to manure, And lawes to rule our town.-Surrey. Virgile. Eneis, b.iv. Wherefore generally to speak of the commonwealth, or policie of England, it is gouerned, administered, and manured by three sorts of persons, the princes, monarch, and heade gouernour, which is called the king, or if the crowne fall to a woman, the queen absolute. Smith. Commonwealth, b. i. c. 28. The first manured Westerne ile, By Chain and Japhet's race. Warner. Albion's England, b. v. c. 26. Though many a load of marle and manure layd Reviv'd this barren lens, that erst lay dead. Bp. Hall, b. v. Sat. 1. Flowers and herbs by change of soil and want of manuring are turned to weeds. Ralegh, History of the World, b. i. c. 9. s. 4. p. 105, This book [Doomsday] in effect gives an account not only of the manurable landes in every mannor, town or vil, but also of the number and natures of their several inhabitants. Hale. Origin. of Mankind, p. 235. Now, of the conquerour, this isle Warner. Albion's England, b. iii. c. 14. The culture and manurance of minds in youth hath such a forcible, though unseen, operation, as hardly any length of time or contention of labour can countervail it afterwards. Bacon. On Learning, b. li. I must begin with capacities; for the manurement of wits is like that of soils, where before either the pains of tilling or the charge of sowing, men use to consider what the mold will bear, heath or grain.-Reliquiæ Wottonianæ, p. 76. Husbandmen to make their vines bear, manure them with vine leaves, or the husks of exprest grapes, and they observe those to be most fruitful which are so manured with their own.-Ray. On the Creation, pt. 1. The land is manured, either by pasturing the cattle upon it or by feeding them in the stable, and from thence carrying out their dung to it. Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. i. c. 11. p. 307. In all farms too distant from any town to carry manure from it, that is in the far greater part of those of every extensive country, the quantity of well-cultivated land must be in proportion to the quantity of manure which the farm itself produces; and this again must be in proportion to the stock of cattle which are maintained upon it.-Id. Ib. MANUSCRIPT, adj. MANUSCRIPT, n. MANUSCRIPTAL. Fr. Manuscrit; It. Manoscritto; Sp. Manuscritto; Lat. Manuscriptum, written with the hand, (manu, and scriptum, from scribere, to write.) Any thing, written with the hand. Study our manuscripts, those myriads Of letters, which have past 'twixt thee and me. Donne. Valediction to his Book. My honoured friend, Dr. Tancred Robinson, in his manuscript Itinerary of Italy, relates the many various figures he observ'd naturally delineated and drawn on several sorts of stones digged up in the quarries, caverns and rocks, about Florence, and other parts of Italy. Ray. On the Creation, pt. i. He expended upwards of £300 in arranging and improving the manuscript library at Lambeth. Porteus. The Life of Abp. Secker, p. 55. Having but one of all the Roman lyrics Tho so muche fole to hym com of knygtys góng & olde, myche more hise houshold meynee ?-Wiclif. Matt. c. 10. Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose. With many an horne, and many a route Surrey. To his Mistresse. His seruantes meniall Of which litigious famelies Heere mapped be the lines Warner. Albion's England, b. iv. o. 32. Daniel. On the Death of the Earl of Devonshire. Clot. I am neare to th' place where they should meet, if Pisanio haue mapp'd it truely. Shakespeare. Cymbeline, Act iv. sc. 1. They call this bed-worke, mapp ry, closet-warre. Id. Troyl. & Cress. Act i. sc. 3. He may then be advanced farther in geography, and after he is acquainted with the poles, zones, parallel, circles, and meridians, be taught longitude and latitude, and by them be made to understand the use of maps. Locke. Of Education, s. 180. Such comprehensive views the spirit takes Cowper. Task, b. vi. MA'PLE. A. S. Mapul-trco; Dut. Maes-hout; Ger. Mas-holder; Sw. Masur. Acer arbor; Skinner, who would derive maple from the Lat. Amabilis, because furnished with so pleasing and beautiful leaves. Wachter and Ihre derive from mas, a spot. (See the quotation from Pliny.) The latter notices the Bar. Lat. Mosorbolla; and A. S. Mapul is thought by Mr. Thomson to be a corruption of mar boll. See Mazer. There were elmes great and strong, Maples, ash. Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose. The maple in bigness is much about the linden tree: the wood of it is very fine and beautiful. A kind there is, which Skelton. Why come ye not to Court? hath a curled graine, running to and fro with diverse spots: the more excellent work whereof, resembling the eles in the peacockes taile, thereupon tooke also the name. Holland. Plinie, b. xvi. c. 15. Nathless himselfe he armed all in haste, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 11. Shakespeare. Merchant of Venice, Act ii. sc. 9. So, with this bold opposer rushes on This many-headed monster, multitude. Daniel. Civil Wars, b. ii. When the merry bells ring round, Mark with what management their tribes divide, His [De Wits] train was only one man who performed all the menial services of his house at home. Sir W. Temple. On the United Provinces, c. 2. The ages, we call barbarous, present us with many a sub MA'NY, adj. Very variously written. Goth. MA'NY, n. Manag, S. Manig, mænig; ME'NIAL, adj. Dut. Menig; Ger. Maning, ME'NIAL, n. manch; Sw. Menig. I believe, says Skinner, from the A. S. Ge-men-gan; Ger. Meng-en, miscere, to mix; for where many are there is a certain mixture, or medley, of men,quædam hominum miscela. Wachter reverses this, and derives the verb mengen, to mix, from menge, multus vel multitudo; and Dr. Jamieson is convinced that the term primarily respected mul-ject of curious speculation.—Hurd. On Chivalry, Let. 1. titude. Tooke affirms it to be the past part. of meng-an, miscere, to mix, to mingle, and that it means mixed or associated, (for that is the effect of mixing,) subaud. company or any uncertain and unspecified number of any things. Many (Lowth) is chiefly used with the word great before it. G. Douglas (p. 153) uses the expression, " A few menye, or menze.' Many, or meine, or meinie, is applied to " A mixture or medley, of persons, or things; a number of servants, or attendants, or followers; a company or retinue; the company or collected number of a household or family: whence the adjective menial. In the expressions many an horne, &c. Tooke considers an or a to be a corruption of, -of, many of hornes, &c. many a message, many of messages. Many, adj. consequentially_ Of or pertaining to a mixed number; numerous: of an unspecified, an indefinite or undetermined number. Many is much used-prefixed. See MANIFOLD. The will of the many, and their interest, must very often differ; and great will be the difference when they make an evil choice.-Burke. On the French Revolution. I have classed artificers, manufacturers, and merchants, among the productive labourers, and menial servants among the barren or unproductive. Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. iv. c. 9. The Duchess marked his weary pace, Scott. Lay of the Last Minstrel, Introd.. MAP, v. Fr. Mappe, mappemonde; It. MAP, n. Mappa, mappamondo; Sp.Mapa, MA'PPERY. from the Lat. Mapa, (says Minshew,) a table-cloth of the similitude and likeness whereof the mappe of the world took this name mappe. Mappe monde. Tabula cosmographica. A tablet, picture, or delineation of the world, or of any part of it; showing the relative situations of places on the earth; of stars in the heavens. Some glossy-leav'd; and shining in the sun, The maple, and the beech of oily nuts Prolific. MAR, v. MAR, n. MA'RRER. Cowper. Task, b. i. Goth. Meryan, or gan; A. S. Merran, mirr-an, myrr-an, to dissipate, to disperse, to spread MA'RRING, n. abroad, to scatter, (Tooke.) "A. S. Amyrr-an, to destroy, corrupt, impaire, deprave, defile, deforme, pollute, distract, dissipate, consume, marre," (Somner.) See MERRY. TO mar is To disperse or scatter; and thus, to ruin or destroy; to spoil, to hurt or harm, to injure, (to murther.) And marre the wt myschef.-Piers Plouhman, p. 45. For if thou knew him out of doubt, Of thy prison that marreth thee.-Chaucer. R. of the R. This paynim hath made his preiere.--Gower. Con.A. b.vil. I trust my will to write shall match the marrs I make in it.-Ascham to Edward Raven, May 1551. For he sayeth yt they he ye marrars & distroyers of the realme.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 295. Now see for. Goddes sake where Tindall hath scraped out & altred one word, in which one standeth the making and marring of all the whole matter.-Id. Ib. p. 607. But ah! my rymes too rude and rugged arre Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 2. Beaum. & Fletch. The Chances, Act 1, sc. 1. The most sagacious men in so many ages have been able to find nothing that can be altered for the better, nothing but if it were altered would be marred. Ray, On the Creation, t. ii. In him, the beauty of the divine image was refulgent in Its original perfection; in all the sons of Adam, obscured and marred, in a degree to be scarce discernible. Bp. Horsley, vol. i. Ser. 6. It is evident that the approaches of death are described in it as a marring of the machine of the body by the failure of its principal parts.-Id. vol. iii. Ser. 39. MARA'UDE, v. Menage notices the derivaMARA'UDER. tion of this word from a Comte Merodes, who commanded in the armies of Ferdinand II.; but Duchat shows that it existed long before. Cotgrave has marauder, to beg, to play the rogue, or idle vagabond. Skinner (in v. Marrow,) says that maraude in Fr. denotes a beggar or vagabond; and derives it, improbably enough, from the Ger. Mære, a mare, and ald, a servant; q. d. a mean servant, who takes care of horses, a groom. It is not improbably formed upon the verb, To mar. To go on a marauding party, is to go in search of pillage or plunder. Some place decoys, nor will they not avail, MARBLE, n. MARBLE, adj. MARBLE, V. } Fr. Marbre; It. Marmo; Sp. Marmol; Lat. Marmor. From the Gr. Mapuaoos, and this from uapuaup-ew, resplendere, vibranti splendore coruscare, to shine, to glitter. To marble, consequentially, to speckle, to flake, to variegate, like marble. See the quotation from Boyle. At Westmynstere he lis toumbed richely, In a marble bis [grey] of him is mad story. R. Brunne, p. 230. Of marble is the stone, and purtreied ther he lies, The soule to God is gone, to the joye of paradis. Amen. Id. p. 341. Estward ther stood a gate of marble white. Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 1893. Finding him of a fine spirit, and winning behauiour; [she] thought she had now found a curious piece of marble, to carue out an image of a Duke of Yorke. Bacon. Hen. VII. p. 115. A straunge thing is recorded of the quarries in the island Paros; namely, That in one quarter thereof there was a vein of marble found, which, when it was cloven in twaine with wedges, shewed naturally within, the true image and parfect portraiture of Silenus imprinted in it. Holland. Plinie, b. xxxvi. c. 5. Lines not compos'd as heretofore in haste, Waller. To the Duchess. To form or constitute, to be placed or situated upon, the bounding mark, or line of demarcation; to confine, to bound or border upon. From the marchers, or lords of the marches, arose the title of markis, or marquess, (qv.) See the quotations from Selden and Blackstone. And the kyng of the march, that was here amidde. R. Gloucester, p. 3. His fader in his tymes enlargissed his marches, as a noble and worthi erle.-Id. p. 483. Note. I rede out of this oste the marchis go his gate. R. Brunne, p. 177. The God of slepe where that she fonde, And that was in a strange londe, Which marcheth upon Chimerie.-Gower. Con. A. b. iv. The Frenche kyng went to Saynt Omers, and sent men of warre to hys garysons, and specially to Tourney, to Lysle, and to Doway, and to the other townes marchyng on thepyre. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 42. There was certayne soudyours of Almaygne, sette by the bysshoppe of Cambray, in the fortresse of Male Mason, a two leages for the castell Cambresien, and marchynge on the other parte neare to Ladreches.-Id. Ib. vol. i. c. 48. Duke Aubert, by the meanes of the Holaders and Zedayly ye gauntoyse in dyuers maners.-Id. Ib. vol. i. c. 469. landers, suche as be marchyng on the see side, dyd comforte Bitwene the countie of Foix, and the countrie of Bierne, lyeth the coûtie of Bigore, whiche countie parteyned to Fraunce, and marchesed on the coûtre of Tholousin. Id. Ib. vol. ii. c. 22. By the March understand those limits between England and Wales; which continuing from North to South join the Welsh shires to Hereford, Shropshire and the English part. Drayton. Poly-Olbion, 8. 7. Selden. Illustrations. The barons that lived in them were called lord marchers, and by the name of marchiones, i. e. marquises.-Id. Ib. The said Breuse was a lord marcher, and had goodlie possessions in Wales, and on the marches. Holinshed. K. John, an. 1210. He [Malcolme] abrogated that wicked law, established by King Ewin the third, appointing halfe a marke of siluer to be paid to the lord of the soile, in redemption of the woman's chastitie, which is vsed to be paied yet vnto this day, and is called the marchets of woman. Id. Historic of Scotland, an. 1086. In the midst of Stainmoore there shall be a crosse set vp, with the King of Englands image on the one side, and the King of Scotlands on the other, to signifle that the one is march to England, and the other to Scotland. Id. Ib. an. 1067. A marquess, marchio, is the next degree of nobility. His office formerly was (for dignity and duty were never separated by our ancesters) to guard the frontiers and limits of the kingdom: which were called the marches, from the Teutonic marche, a limit: such as, in particular, were the marches of Wales and Scotland, while each continued to be an enemy's country. The persons who had command there were called lords marchers, or marquesses. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. i. c. 12. p. 397. MARCH, v. Fr. Marcher; It. Marciare; MARCII, n. Sp. Marchar; Ger. Marschieren; to walk in military or martial manner, with slow and lengthened step, q. d. martiari, (Skinner.) Menage forms it from the verb varicare. (And see his Dict. Etymologique for various conjectures. To add one more :) The A. S. Marc, Ger. Mark, a mark or sign, is also an ensign, a standard;-to march may thus be, to go or proceed under the same standard, in order of battle, in battle array. To go or proceed, or cause to go or proceed, in a military form or order; to walk as soldiers Cowper. Task, b. i. walk, regularly and steadily; to make a regular Gay. Lamentation of Glumdalclitch. Some book-binders also employ aspersions of aqua fortis to stain the leather, that makes those fine covers of books that, for their resemblance to speckled marble, are wont to be called marbled.-Boyle. Works, vol. iii. p. 448. Bacon there Gives more than female beauty to a stone, And Chatham's cloquence to marble lips. In the question about the tables the marble-polisher will unquestionably determine the most accurately. Burke. On the Sublime and Beautiful, Introd. MARCASITICAL. Fr. Marcassite. The marcassite, or fire stone; a mineral that smells like brimstone, and is of two kinds; the yellow shining as gold, and the white (the purer and better of the two) like silver, (Cotgrave.) Will it not be very probable that the temperature of the earth in the place that abounds with these marchasitical minerals will be very warm in comparison of the temperature of the other place.-Boyle. Forks, vol. iii. p. 333. A. S. Mearc, terminus, a bound. Hence the Bar. Lat. Marca, marcha, pro limite imperii, (Somner.) See MARK. MARCH, v. MA'RCHES, n. MA'RCHER. MARCHESE, V. To march, Fr. Marcher, progress. And all they that heard the noyce of their multitude, and the marching of the companie, and the ratteling of the harnes, were astonished: for the armie was verie great & mightie.-Geneva Bible, 1561. 1 Maccabees, vi. 41, If drummes once sound a lustie martch indeede, Then farewell bookes for he will trudge with speede. Gascoigne. The Fruites of Warre. There did the prince him leave in deadly swound, And thence into the castle marched right To see if entrance there as yet obtaine he might. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 10. From the marching of the Israelites out of Egypt, to their first rest by Joshua, were 46 years. Grew. Cosmo. Sacra, b. iv. c. 3. The great Achilles march'd not to the field Till Vulcan that impenetrable shield And arms had wrought yet there no bullets flew, But shafts and darts, which the weak Phrygians threw. Waller. Instructions to a Painter. We thought this skin [of the camel's foot] was like a living sole, which wore not with the swiftness and the continuance of the march, for which this animal is almost indefatigable.-Ray. Of the Creation, pt. ii. So loud their march, the Scots suspended hear, There was a certain soothsayer, that had given Cæsar warning long time afore, to take heed of the day of the Ides of March, (which is the fifteenth of the moneth) for on that day he should be in great danger. That day being come, Caesar going into the Senate House, and speaking merrily to the soothsayer, told him the Ides of March be come. So they be, softly answered the soothsayer, but yet are they not past.-North. Plutarch, p. 613. Cous. He is March-mad, farewell monsieur. Beaum. & Fletch. The Noble Gentlemen, Act i.-se. 1. It is proverbially said in England, that a peck of March dust is worth a king's ransom, so unfrequent is dry weather during that month.-Boyle. Works, vol. v. p. 51. MARCHPA'NE. Fr. Marcepain; It. Marzapane; Sp. Maçapan; Ger. Marzipan. March-pane (say Skinner and Wachter) was a confection of almonds, pistachio nuts, sugar, and rose-water. All agree (says the latter) that pane is the Lat. Panis, bread, and by some said to be massa panis,-by others martius panis,-by others mixtus panis, from mischen, miscere, to mix or mingle. Steevens declares our macaroons to be only debased and diminutive marchpanes. Build fine march-panes, to entertain Sir Silk Worm and He on his own fish pours the noblest oil, Dryden. Juvenal, Sat. 5. By W. Bowles. Yet considering the exolution and languor ensuing that act in some, the extenuation and marcour in others, and the visible acceleration it makes of age in most: we cannot but think it much abridgeth our daies. Brown. Vulgar Errours, b. iii. c. 9. MARE. A. S. Mara; Ger. Mar; Dut. Maere; Sw. Mara, incubus. Wachter says,-Propriè est somnus impeditus, et spiritum dormientis intercipiens, from marren, impedire, to impede or hinder, to mar. See NIGHTMARE. And Mab, his merry queen, by night Drayton. Nymphidia. merie; Ger. Mare, equa, and also-puella. WachMARE. A. S. Mare, mere, myre; Dut. Maere, his etymology goes no further. ter derives mare, equa, from mar, a horse; but Mearce in A. S. is-mollis, tener, tactui facile ceMar in Ger. ; dens, gentle, yielding easily or readily to the hand; and mare may be so named from its gentle and tractable disposition. The A. S. Mag is applied to maid and man, and mar, mare, equus, equa, may have the same root,-the verb to may, and be applied for similar reasons.-May, may-er, mare, mar, that which has strength, (sc.) to bear, to carry; the male, perhaps burthens, &c.; the female-young. A cart mare To drawe a feld my donge. the wyle drouth lasteth. Chaucer. Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, v. 542. Now the generals and heads of the army of the Thebans being of sundry opinions, and Pelopidas being more afraid than before, by reason of their disagreement: a young marecolt, or filly, breaking by chance from the other mares running and flinging through the camp, came to stay right against then.-North. Plutarch, p. 247 A point or line marked. The shore or separating edge, the edge, brink, or brim, the border: the margin of a book, the border that extends around the letter-press, or printed portion of a page. Marchans in the margine. hadden menye geres. Howbeit, in many places, me thinketh it better to put a declaration in the margent, then to runne to farre from the text.-Id. Ib. I present it [England's Eliza] in one whole entire hymne, distinguishing it only by succession of yeares, which I haue margented through the whole story. Mirrour for Magistrates, p. 775, Pref. Of a fresh streame with that elfe did play. At Ely's isled marge. Draylon. Poly-Olbion, s. 22. What heavenly muse shall thy great honour rayse, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 10. The Romane penny by the consent of the learned and the judgement of our last translatours in divers parts of their marginall notes, was the eighth part of an ounce. Hakewill. Apologie, b. ii. s. 4. Massinger. The Fatal Dowry, Act iii. sc. 1. I do not say that he should stuff his mind like the margent of some authors, with chapter and verse heaped together, at all adventures.-South, vol. ii. Ser. 11. Wherever any hint is taken from him [Chaucer] the passage itself is set down in the marginal notes. Then, goddess, guide my pilgrim feet naval or sea affairs; to a soldier serving on ship. To marinate, to prepare, to dress in sea or salt The maryner was ogast, that schip that wild not go. "Well said by corpus Domini," quod our hoste, Chaucer. The Prioresses Prologue, v. 13,367. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 10. All townes did ring with sudden crid alarmes, Arádus Zidon, and Biblos, [were] maritime cities of great Cowper. Task, b. ii. So vastly inferior were our ancestors in this point to the present age, that even in the maritime reign of queen Elizabeth, Sir Edward Coke thinks it matter of boast, that the royal navy of England then consisted of three-and-thirty ships.-Blackstone. Commentaries, b. i. c. 13. To mark,-note, sign, spot, set a print or stamp on; also, to heed, regard, observe, take special Mirrour for Magistrales, p. 819. notice of, (Cotgrave.) Also, to mark (sc.) a line, a bounding line, a boundary, a border, a frontier, a confine, a shore, a marg-in. See MARCH. The weary mariner so far not flies Drummond. Flowers in Sion. He can marinate fish and make jellies. Howell, b. i. s. 5. Let. 36. Meantime his busy mariners he hastes Dryden. Annus Mirabilis. Why am I styl'd a cook, if I'm so loth King. Art of Cookery. The first [factions] wished France, diverted from the poli- Burke. On a Regicide Peace, Let. 2. MARJORAM. Fr. Marjolaine; It. Majorana; As slow he winds in museful mood Warton. On the Approach of Summer. I should have thought it superfluous, had it been easier to me than it was, to have interrupted my text or crouded my margin with reference to every author whose sentiments I have made use of.-Paley. Moral Philosophy, vol. i. Ded. Such quotations of places to be marginally set down, as shall serve for the fit reference of one scripture to another. Abp. Newcomb. View of the Bib. Translat. p. 99. MARGUERITE. Fr. Marguérite; It. and Sp. Margarita; 'Lat. Margarita; Gr. Mapyapıτns, a pearl. Nile ye gyve hooly thing to houndis neither caste ye youre margaritis bifore swyn.-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 7. A muskell in a blewe shell, had enclosed a margarite perle, the moste precious, and best that euer to forn came in my sight.-Chaucer. Test. of Loue, b. i. MARIGOLD, q. d. aurum Maria, a colore floris luteo: from the yellow colour of the flower, (Skinner.) Absence hath robb'd thee of thy wealth and pleasure, MARINE, adj. Of or belonging to the sca. All the maritime tract comprehending Sussex, and part of And [Javan] from thence passed over the nearest way, Fr. Marquable,-markable, notable, of mark, of note. We now use Remarkable, (qv.) And see the quotation from Hobbs. In an hard roche stude ys thong aboute he drow Which mankind is so faire part of thy werk, Chaucer. The Frankeleines Tale, v. 11,192. The whose figure is marked thus. Gower. Con. 4. b. vii. My thought was free, my heart was light, Vncertaine Auctors. The Lover that once, &c.. Lord what abuse is this! who can such women praise? But yet he pricked over yonder plaine, Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. v. c. 1. But because these things are not frequently considered, there are very many sins committed against religion, which because the commandment hath not marked, men refuse to mark, and think God requires no more. Bp. Taylor, vol. ii. Ser. 16. He would strike them with some markable punishment.-Sir E. Sandys. State of Religion, F. 2. b. Ben. I aymed so neare, when I suppos'd you lou'd. A mark then is a sensible object which a man erecteth voluntarily to himself, to the end to remember thereby somewhat past, when the same is objected to his sense again: As men that have past by a rock at sea, set up some mark, thereby to remember their former danger, and avoid it.-Hobbs. Human Nature, c. 5. s. 1. But on an arm of oak, that stood betwixt The marks-man and the mark, his lance he fixt. Dryden. Ovid. Metam. b. viii. The method of the Saxons was fof such as could write to inscribe their names, and, whether they could write or not, to affix the sign of the cross; which custom our illiterate vulgar do, for the most part, to this day keep up; by signing a cross for their mark when unable to write their names. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. ii. c. 20. p. 305. A stone thrown at random must necessarily hit one object or another. When we see, therefore, such an effect pro duced, we are not entitled, independently of other informa- MARK, n. Fr. Marc; It. Marco; Dut. Marck; Ger. Mark; Sw. Mark; so called from the mark impressed upon it:quia (sc.) signo regio impressum est, (Skinner.) And see Menage. The Mancus, mancusa, (see the quotation from Camden,) q. d. manu cusa: (see Spelman, in v. Marca.) And borwede of hym thervppe an hondred thousand mare, If I may gripe a rich man, I shall so pull him if I can, That he shall in a fewe stounds, Chaucer. The Rom. of the Rose. A place for buying and selling goods, provisions, &c. Market-folks,-folks or people who frequent the market-place for the purpose of buying and selling. Market-beter.-"He was used to swagger up and down the market when it was fullest," (Tyrwhitt.) In Cotgrave,-bateur de pavez, an idle or continual walker. Ther markettis & ther faires & ther castels reft. R. Brunne, p. 296. No man makes haste to the market, where there is nothing to be bought but blows. Ralegh. History of the World, b. iv. c. 2. s. 4. In those countries wherein there is a price set by publique authority upon all marketable commodities, the way of commerce is well expedited. Bp. Hall. Cases of Conscience, Dec. 1. Case 2. Denton, Deane of Litchfielde, compassed this crosse with eight faire arches of stone, making a round vault ouer them for market-folkes to stand drie in. Stow. The Mercians, an. 626. Yet farther, another art of charity he had, the selling corn to the poor neighbours at a rate below the market-price, which though, as he said, he had reason to do, gaining thereby the charge of portage, was a great benefit to them, who, besides the abatement of price, and possibly forbearance, saved thereby a day's work. Hammond. Works, vol. i. The Life by Fell. The market-sted about. Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 22. Dryden. Absalom & Achitophel. They are holding up their heads to see what the Govern- Then, as thou wilt, dispose the rest Prior. In the Beginning of Robe's Geography. MARLE, v. MA'RLY. } as the marrow nourishes, cherishes, and enriches Chaucer. The Milleres Tale, v. 3455. The lean and hungry earth, the fat and marly mould, J. Philips. Cider. MARMALADE. Fr. Marmelade; It. Mar- And at night to banquet with dew (as they say) of all jelly or marmalade.-Grainger. The Sugar Cane, b. 1. Note. MARMORATE. Lat. Marmor, marble. Wood Under this ston closyde and marmorate The word is used (met.) by Lord Berners and There be at this day five Marchesses of Bradenourge. Hence is supposed the original of that honorary title of marquis, which is as much as a lord of the frontiers, or such like.-Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 7. Selden. Illustrations. In old time he onelie was called marquesse, Qui habuit terram limitaneam, a marching prouince vpon the enimies countries, and thereby bound to keepe and defend the frontiers.-Holinshed. Description of England, b. ii. c. 5. The duke [of Savoy] immediately after the ambassador's departure (who appointed those gentlemen to follow him) made a sudden attempt upon the marquisate of Montserrato, where he surprised three towns with the Petarde. Reliquia Wotlonianæ, p. 415. Also Francis Scotia lord of Pine and Mondone, and other nobles of the marquesdome of Saluce, are descended from the Scots.-Holinshed. Historie of Scotland, an. 1483. But as for the marqueship of Corke being a matter of great weight and importance, and the prouince of Mounster then not setled in anie quietness: he would not as then nor yet thought it good to deale therein.-Id. Ireland, an. 1586. In this case letters of marque and reprisal (words used as synonimous; and signifying, the latter, a taking in return, the former the passing the frontiers in order to such taking) may be obtained, in order to seize the bodies or goods of the subjects of the offending state, until satisfaction be made, wherever they happen to be found. Blackstone. Commentaries, b. i. c. 7. A. S. Merg, meary, mearh; Dut. Marg, merg; Ger. Mark; Sw. Marg, (Ihre.) Wachter and Skinner propose from A. S. Mearu, Ger. Mar, mollis, tener, soft, tender. May-er, from the See verb, to may, is not improbably the root. MARE. MA'RROW. } Marie, as used by Sir T. More, in Marie-bones, Chaucer. The Pardoneres Tale, v. 12,476 Id. Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, v. 382. But when he could not make me belieue yt he had forgote it, then down he fel vpon his maribones, & pitteously prayd me to forgeue him ye one lye, in which the deuill, he sayde, Vnsauvry iesture without all maner of salt, and euen very ought hym a shame.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 727. Alwayes the erle hath these marmoseltes about him, as Drayton. Mrs. Shore to Edward IV. MA'RQUESS. Hence also some beasts, as the Marmotto or Mus Alpinus, a creature as big or bigger than a rabbet, which absconds all winter, doth (as Hildanus tells us) live upon its own fat. Ray. On the Creation, pt. ii. Fr. Marquis; It. Marchese; Sp. Marques. Marquess is by Chaucer written Markis, and Marchioness, Markisesse. Marquess, by Ascham, Marches. For the origin of the name, see the quotations from Selden and Holinshed, infra, and from Blackstone, in v. MARCII. Marque, see the quotation from Blackstone. MARQUESSHIP., The skull hath brains, as a kind of marrow, within it. The backbone hath a kind of marrow, which hath an affinity with the braine; and other bones of the body hath another. Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 750. In the upper region serving the animall faculties, the chiefe organ is the braine, which is a soft, marrowish, and white substance, ingendred of the purest part of seed and spirits.-Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy, p. 19. Or was it not Some place of gain, as clerk to the great band Whilst in thy marrowless, dry bones, Churchill. The Duellist, b. 1. Grainger. The Sugar Cane, b. i. Note on ver. 45. MA'RROW. This word had escaped Skinner's reading; he says that he had seen it only in the English Dictionary, and denies that it is any where used as equivalent to socius. It is a common Scottish word, and occurs in the Braes of Yarrow by Hamilton. Ray says, "A marrow, a companion or fellow. A pair of gloves are not marrows, i. e. fellows. Vox generalis. The Gloss. to Douglas (who notices the oversight of Skinner) explains thus: "An equal, fellow, associate, accomplice, companion, camrad. The word is often used for |