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<A NAME="mareclausum">
<B>mare clausum,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) a closed sea; waters within the sphere of control of one nation. </DL>
<A NAME="mareksdisease">
<B>Marek's disease,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a contagious disease of the lymph system of chickens, caused by a herpesvirus and resulting in paralysis, blindness, and tumors; fowl paralysis. It is the most common form of the avian leucosis complex. </DL>
<A NAME="mareliberum">
<B>mare liberum,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) open sea; the high seas. </DL>
<A NAME="maremma">
<B>maremma, </B>noun, pl. <B>-remme.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a low, marshy, unhealthful region by the seashore. <DD><B> 2. </B>the miasma of such a region. </DL>
<A NAME="marenostrum">
<B>mare nostrum,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) our sea. <BR> <I>Ex. The Mediterranean ... Rome's mare nostrum (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="mareschal">
<B>mareschal, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Obsolete or Archaic.) marshal. </DL>
<A NAME="maresnest">
<B>mare's-nest, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a supposedly great discovery that turns out to be a mistake or hoax. <BR> <I>Ex. In Mr. Sutliff's opinion, Mr. Kraushauer had run off after a mare's-nest (John Stephen Strange).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a condition of great disorder or confusion. </DL>
<A NAME="marestail">
<B>mare's-tail, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a long, feathery circus cloud shaped somewhat like a horse's tail. <DD><B> 2. </B>a water plant, with many circles of narrow, hairlike leaves around the stems. <DD><B> 3. </B><B>=horsetail </B>(def. 2). </DL>
<B>Marfan's syndrome,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a congenital and hereditary condition characterized by abnormal length and slenderness of the arms, legs, fingers, and toes. </DL>
<B>margaric acid,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a white, crystalline, fatty acid found in lichens and produced artificially, resembling palmitic and stearic acids. </DL>
<A NAME="margarin">
<B>margarin, </B>noun. <B>=margarine.</B></DL>
<A NAME="margarine">
<B>margarine, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a substitute for butter made from cottonseed oil, soybean oil, and other vegetable oils; oleomargarine. <BR> <I>Ex. We like margarine on bread. Modern margarine is made from refined vegetable oils ... grown on American farms, plus cultured skim milk (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="margarita">
<B>margarita, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a cocktail made of tequila, orange-flavored liqueur, and lime (or lemon) juice, usually served in a glass whose rim is treated with salt. </DL>
<A NAME="margarite">
<B>margarite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a hydrated calcium aluminum silicate, occurring as scales with a pearly luster. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Archaic.) a pearl. </DL>
<A NAME="margaux">
<B>Margaux, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a claret produced in the commune of Margaux, in the region near Bordeaux. </DL>
<A NAME="margay">
<B>margay, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a small, long-tailed, spotted wildcat of the same genus as and similar to the ocelot, found from Texas south to Brazil. <BR> <I>Ex. The elusive Texas margay ... has only been taken one time, back in the last century (Science News Letter).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="marge">
<B>marge</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) a margin; edge; border. <BR> <I>Ex. the illuminated marge of some old book (James Russell Lowell). The plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide (William Cullen Bryant).</I> </DL>
<B>margent, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) margin. <BR> <I>Ex. Across the margent of the world I fled (Francis Thompson).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="margin">
<B>margin, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>an edge or border. <BR> <I>Ex. the margin of a lake. A step or two farther brought him to one margin of a little clearing (Robert Louis Stevenson). Over the margin, After it, follow it, Follow the Gleam (Tennyson).</I> (SYN) brim, brink, rim, verge. <DD><B> 2. </B>the space around a page that has no writing or printing on it. <BR> <I>Ex. Do not write in the margin. (Figurative.) I love a broad margin to my life (Thoreau).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) an extra amount; amount beyond what is necessary; difference. <BR> <I>Ex. a margin for error. We allow a margin of 15 minutes in catching a train.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>the difference between the cost and selling price, as of stocks. <DD><B> 5. </B>(Finance.) <DD><B> a. </B>the money or securities deposited with a broker to protect him from loss on transactions undertaken for the real buyer or seller. <DD><B> b. </B>the amount of such a deposit. <BR> <I>Ex. The reserve board raised margins from 50 to 60 per cent (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> c. </B>the transaction itself, financed by both the broker and his customer. <BR> <I>Ex. When you buy on margin you put up only part of the total cost and the broker lends you the remainder.</I> <DD><B> d. </B>the customer's profit or loss in such a transaction. <DD><B> 6. </B>the point at which an economic activity yields just enough return to cover its costs and below which the activity will result in a loss. <DD><B> 7. </B>a condition beyond which something ceases to exist or be possible; limit. <BR> <I>Ex. the margin of subsistence, the margin of consciousness.</I> <DD> (Abbr:) marg. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to provide with a margin; border. <BR> <I>Ex. The shore ... was margined with foam (Herman Melville).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to enter (notes, comments, figures, or sketches) in the margin. <DD><B> 3. </B>to provide (a book or article) with marginal notes. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Finance.) <DD><B> a. </B>to deposit a margin upon (stock or other securities). <DD><B> b. </B>to secure by a margin. <BR> <I>Ex. Probably 45 per cent of all purchases on the Stock Exchange are margined (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="marginal">
<B>marginal, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>written or printed in a margin. <BR> <I>Ex. a marginal comment.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>of or in a margin. <BR> <I>Ex. marginal space.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>on or near the margin. <BR> <I>Ex. Marginal land is barely fit for farming.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Figurative.) existing or occurring on the fringes of anything established; only partly taken in. <BR> <I>Ex. a marginal culture.</I> <DD><B> 5a. </B>barely producing or capable of producing, as goods or crops, at a profitable rate. <BR> <I>Ex. The small, inefficient or marginal farmer (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>of, having to do with, or obtained from goods or crops that are so produced and marketed. <BR> <I>Ex. marginal income. Britain's current economic problem is marginal (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>(Sociology.) only partially assimilated in a social group. <BR> <I>Ex. The marginal man is the person who belongs to two or more cultures but is not fully accepted in any (Emory S. Bogardus).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> (Especially British.) a constituency where the results of an election might favor either party. <BR> <I>Ex. Of five by-elections pending, two are in marginals (Sunday Times).</I> adv. <B>marginally.</B> </DL>
<B>marginality, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the quality or condition of being marginal. </DL>
<A NAME="marginalize">
<B>marginalize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to make marginal; leave on the fringes of society. <BR> <I>Ex. ... towering economic and social problems which effectively leave half the populations marginalized (Richard Wigg).</I> noun <B>marginalization.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="marginalutility">
<B>marginal utility,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the utility derived, or expected, from a unit of a commodity which a buyer is just barely willing to purchase at the prevailing price. </DL>
<A NAME="marginate">
<B>marginate, </B>verb, <B>-ated,</B> <B>-ating,</B> adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> to provide with a margin; border. <DD><I>adj. </I> having a margin. noun <B>margination.</B> </DL>
<B>margrave, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a title of certain princes of Germany or the Holy Roman Empire. <DD><B> 2. </B>the military governor of a German border province in former times. </DL>
<A NAME="margravial">
<B>margravial, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with a margrave or a margraviate. </DL>
<A NAME="margraviate">
<B>margraviate, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the territory ruled by a margrave. </DL>
<A NAME="margravine">
<B>margravine, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the wife or widow of a margrave. </DL>
<A NAME="marguerite">
<B>marguerite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a kind of daisy with white petals and a yellow center, such as the oxeye daisy. <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of several kinds of chrysanthemums with daisylike flowers. </DL>
<A NAME="mari">
<B>Mari, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ri</B> or <B>-ris.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a member of a Finno-Ugric people of the Volga Valley of Russia. </DL>
<A NAME="maria">
<B>maria, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> plural of <B>mare</B> (3). </DL>
<A NAME="mariachi">
<B>mariachi, </B>noun, pl. <B>-chis.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a member of a Mexican band of strolling singers and musicians. <BR> <I>Ex. Professional mariarchis in old times were wandering minstrels (Saturday Review).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a band of mariachis. <DD><B> 3. </B>music played by such a band. <BR> <I>Ex. Several informal groups of musicians were playing mariachi (Harper's).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="mariagedeconvenance">
<B>mariage de convenance,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) a marriage of convenience or expediency, especially to gain prestige, wealth, or other advantage. </DL>
<A NAME="marian">
<B>Marian, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of or having to do with the Virgin Mary. <DD><B> 2. </B>of or having to do with some other Mary, such as Mary, Queen of Scots. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a worshiper of the Virgin Mary. <DD><B> 2. </B>a supporter of Mary, Queen of Scots. </DL>
