Emily Dickinson Lexicon

MAR-GAY, n.

A Brazilian animal of the cat kind, the Felis Margay.

MAR-GIN, n. [formerly marge or margent. Fr. marge; Arm. marz; It. margine; Sp. margen; L. margo; Dan. marg. It coincides in elements with marches.]

1. A border; edge; brink; verge; as, the margin of a river or lake.
2. The edge of the leaf or page of it book, left blank or filled with notes.
3. The edge of a wound.
4. In botany, the edge of a leaf. Lee.

MAR-GIN, v.t.

1. To furnish with a margin; to border.
2. To enter in the margin.

MAR-GIN-AL, a.

1. Pertaining to a margin.
2. Written or printed in the margin; as, a marginal note or gloss.

MAR-GIN-AL-LY, adv.

In the margin of a book.

MAR-GIN-A-TED, a.

Having a prominent margin.

MAR-GIN-ED, pp.

Furnished with a margin; entered in the margin.

MAR-GIN-ING, ppr.

Furnishing with a margin.

MAR-GODE, n.

A bluish gray stone, resembling clay in external appearance, but so hard as to cut spars and zeolites. Nicholson.

MAR-GOT, n.

A fish of the perch kind, found in the waters of Carolina. Pennant.

MAR-GRAVE, n. [D. markgraff; G. markgraf; Dan. margraeve; compounded of mark, march, a border, and graff, graf or grave, an earl or count. See Reeve and Sherif.]

Originally, a lord or keeper of the marches or borders; now a title of nobility in Germany, &c.

MAR-GRA'VI-ATE, n.

The territory or jurisdiction of a margrave.

MAR'I-ETS, n.

A kind of violet, Viola marina.

MA-RIG'EN-OUS, a. [L. mare, the sea, and gigno, to produce.]

Produced in or by the sea. Kirwan.

MAR'I-GOLD, n. [It is called in Welsh gold, which is said to be from gol, going round or covering. In D. it is called goudsbloem, gold-flower; in G. ringelblume, ring-flower; in Dan. guldblomst, gold-flower.]

A plant of the genus Calendula, bearing a yellow flower. There are several plants of different genera bearing this name; as, the African marigold, of the genus Tagetes; corn-marigold, of the genus Chrysanthemum; fig-marigold, of the genus Mesembryanthemum; marsh-marigold, of the genus Caltha.

MAR'I-KIN, n.

A species of monkey having a mane. Dict. Nat. Hist.

MAR'IN-ATE, v.t. [Fr. mariner, from marine.]

To salt or pickle fish, and then preserve them in oil or vinegar. [Little used.] Johnson.

MA-RINE', a. [Fr. from L. marinus, from mare, the sea, W. mor, G. meer, Celtic muir, Russ. more, Sans. mirah. The seven lakes within the Delta Venetum were formerly called septem maria, and mare may signify a stand of water.]

1. Pertaining to the sea; as, marine productions or bodies; marine shells.
2. Transacted at sea; done on the ocean; as, marine engagement.
3. Doing duty on the sea; as, a marine officer; marine forces.

MA-RINE', n.

1. A soldier that serves on board of a ship in naval engagements. In the plural, marines, a body of troops trained to do military service on board of ships.
2. The whole navy of a kingdom or state. Hamilton.
3. The whole economy of naval affairs, comprehending the building, rigging, equipping, navigating and management of ships of war in engagements.

MAR'IN-ER, n. [Fr. marinier, from L. mare, the sea.]

A seaman or sailor; one whose occupation is to assist in navigating ships.

MAR-IN-O-RA'MA, a. [L. mare, the sea, and Gr. οραω, to see.]

Views of the sea.

MAR'I-PUT, n.

The zoril, an animal of the skunk tribe.

MAR'ISH, a.

Moory; fenny; boggy. Bacon.

MAR'ISH, n. [Fr. marais; Sax. mersc; D. moeras; G. morast; from L. mare, W. mor, the sea.]

Low ground, wet or covered with water and coarse grass; a fen; a bog; a moor. It is now written Marsh, – which see. Sandys. Milton.

MAR'I-TAL, a. [Fr. from L. maritus, Fr. mari, a husband.]

Pertaining to a husband. Ayliffe.