<B>Maritime, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of, having to do with, or characteristic of the Maritime Provinces along the Atlantic coast of Canada. <DD><I>noun </I> a Maritime Province. </DL>
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<B>maritime law,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the branch of law dealing with affairs of the sea or other navigable waters, of boats and ships, and of cargo; admiralty law. </DL>
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<B>maritime pine,</B> =pinaster.</DL>
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<B>Maritimer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a native or inhabitant of the Maritime Provinces. </DL>
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<B>marjoram, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any one of a genus of fragrant herbs of the mint family related to oregano. Sweet marjoram is used as flavoring in cooking. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=oregano.</B> </DL>
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<B>mark</B> (1), noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a trace or impression made by some object on the surface of another. A line, dot, spot, stain, dent, or scar is a mark. <BR> <I>Ex. The old soldier showed me the mark of an old wound.</I> <DD><B> 2a. </B>a line or dot to show position. <BR> <I>Ex. the high-water mark. This mark shows how far you jumped.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>the line where a race starts. <BR> <I>Ex. On the mark; get set; go! The race will start from the mark.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>something that shows what or whose a thing is; sign; indication. <BR> <I>Ex. a laundry mark. Courtesy is a mark of good breeding.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>a tag with a mark on it. <BR> <I>Ex. Remove the price mark from your new suit.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>a written or printed stroke or sign. <BR> <I>Ex. punctuation marks. She took up her pen and made a few marks on the paper.</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>a letter or number to show how well one has done; grade or rating. <BR> <I>Ex. My mark in arithmetic was B.</I> <DD><B> 7. </B>a cross or other sign made by a person who cannot write, instead of signing his name. <BR> <I>Ex. Make your mark here. Dost thou sign thy name or make thy mark? (Herman Melville).</I> <DD><B> 8. </B>something to be aimed at; target. <BR> <I>Ex. Standing there, the lion was an easy mark. Both balls had passed through the lungs--the true mark in shooting buffalo (Francis Parkman). (Figurative.) So I was a mark for plunder at once, And lost my cash (Rudyard Kipling).</I> (SYN) goal. <DD><B> 9. </B>(Figurative.) what is usual, proper, or expected; standard. <BR> <I>Ex. A tired person does not feel up to the mark.</I> <DD><B> 10. </B>(Figurative.) influence; impression. <BR> <I>Ex. A great man leaves his mark on whatever he does.</I> <DD><B> 11. </B>(Figurative.) eminence; importance; distinction. <BR> <I>Ex. That doctor is a man of mark. And left me in reputeless banishment, A fellow of no mark nor likelihood (Shakespeare). There was nothing of high mark in this (Dickens).</I> <DD><B> 12. </B>(Nautical.) <DD><B> a. </B>a piece of bunting, bit of leather, knot, or other material or device, used to mark depths on a lead line. <DD><B> b. </B><B>=Plimsoll mark.</B> <DD><B> 13. </B>the jack or its position in the game of bowls. <DD><B> 14. </B>(British.) a model or class. <BR> <I>Ex. a heavy machine gun (Mark IV).</I> <DD><B> 15. </B>(Boxing.) the solar plexus. <DD><B> 16. </B>(British.) a registration of the sale of stocks. <DD><B> 17. </B>(Slang.) a person marked as good pickings; sucker. <BR> <I>Ex. I teased my way into the pockets of a thousand marks or two (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> 18. </B>(Archaic.) a border or frontier. <DD><B> 19. </B>(Obsolete.) a landmark. <DD><B> 20. </B>(Obsolete.) a memorial stone. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to give grades to; rate. <BR> <I>Ex. The teacher marked our examination papers.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to make a mark on or put one's name on to show whose a thing is. <DD><B> 3. </B>to make a mark on by stamping, cutting, or writing. <BR> <I>Ex. Be careful not to mark the table.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>to trace or form by marks or as if by marks. <DD><B> 5. </B>to show by a mark. <BR> <I>Ex. (Figurative.) They never marked a man for death (Rudyard Kipling). (Figurative.) Melancholy mark'd him for her own (Thomas Gray).</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>to show clearly; indicate; manifest. <BR> <I>Ex. A tall pine marks the beginning of the trail. A frown marked her disapproval.</I> <DD><B> 7. </B>(Figurative.) to distinguish; set off; characterize. <BR> <I>Ex. Many important discoveries mark the last 150 years. His character was marked by profligacy, insolence, and ingratitude (James Boswell).</I> <DD><B> 8. </B>(Figurative.) to give attention to; notice; observe; see. <BR> <I>Ex. Mark how carefully he moves. Mark my words; his plan will fail. Full well I mark'd the features of his face (Alexander Pope). Mark my bidding, and be safe (Charles Brockden Brown).</I> (SYN) note, heed, regard, consider. <DD><B> 9. </B>to put in a pin or make a line to show where a place is. <BR> <I>Ex. Mark all of the large cities on this map.</I> <DD><B> 10. </B>to keep (the score); record. <DD><B> 11. </B>to put a price mark on; tag. <BR> <I>Ex. All goods are plainly marked for sale.</I> <DD><B> 12. </B>to register. <BR> <I>Ex. The thermometer marked 90 degrees F.</I> <DD><B> 13. </B>(British.) to register (a sale of stocks) so as to put it on the official price list. <BR> <I>Ex. On Tuesday 823 bargains were marked (Economist).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to make a mark or marks. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) to pay attention; take notice; consider. <BR> <I>Ex. Mark, I pray you, and see how this man seeketh mischief (I Kings 20:7).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to keep score in a game. <BR><I>expr. <B>beside the mark,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>not hitting the thing aimed at. </I> <I>Ex. The bullet went beside the mark.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>(Figurative.) not to the point; off the subject; not relevant. <BR> <I>Ex. To reason with such a writer is like talking to a deaf man, who catches at a stray word, makes answer beside the mark (Macaulay).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>hit the mark,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>to succeed in doing what one tried to do. </I> <I>Ex. He hit the mark when he became president of the class.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>to be exactly right. <BR> <I>Ex. Venerable was found ... luckily hitting the mark, as a title neither too high nor too low (Thomas Fuller).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>make one's mark,</B> </I>to succeed; become well known. <BR> <I>Ex. That boy is a hard worker, he'll make his mark. That fellow's a gentleman's son ... and he'll make his mark (Ella L. Dorsey).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>mark down,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>to write down; note down. </I> <I>Ex. to mark down an appointment in a datebook.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>to mark for sale at a lower price. <BR> <I>Ex. We have selected over $30,000 of our elegant stock and marked them down 50 per cent (Chicago Tribune).</I> <DD><B> c. </B>to note where (game) has gone to cover. <BR> <I>Ex. It is no good to talk of having marked birds down, unless you have distinctly seen a certain toss up of the wings as they pitch (Cornhill Magazine).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>mark off</B> or <B>out,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>to make lines to show the position of or to separate. </I> <I>Ex. We marked out the tennis court. The hedge marks off one yard from another.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>(Figurative.) to differentiate; distinguish. <BR> <I>Ex. Thus, in the last resort, what marks human history off from natural history is the fact that it is--quite deliberately--man-centered (New Yorker).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>mark out for,</B> </I>to set aside for; select for. <BR> <I>Ex. He seemed marked out for trouble.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>mark up,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>to deface or disfigure. </I> <I>Ex. Don't mark up the desks.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>to add; put. <BR> <I>Ex. to mark up the score.</I> <DD><B> c. </B>to mark for sale at a higher price. <BR> <I>Ex. The prices of venison and other game was so far "marked up" that gold ... was charged for salmon (American Naturalist).</I> <DD><B> d. </B>to revise a legislative bill to put it in final form. <BR> <I>Ex. The budget committee is marking up the new bill before presenting it to Congress.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>miss the mark,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>to fail to do what one tried to do. </I> <I>Ex. Many a preacher misses the mark because, though he knows books, he does not know men (John Stalker).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>to be not exactly right. <BR> <I>Ex. His answer to the arithmetic problem missed the mark.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>off the mark,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>missing the desired object or end. </I> <I>Ex. The projections of the Government on these outlays, ... turned out to be pretty far off the mark (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>off the subject; inaccurate. <BR> <I>Ex. I leave it to them equally to decide whether my very brief and necessarily incomplete summary of Bruner's ideas is as far off the mark as he claims (New Yorker).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>save</B> (or <B>bless</B>) <B>the mark,</B> </I>an exclamation of deprecation, apology, impatience, or contempt. <BR> <I>Ex. The best of my talents (bless the mark) shut up even from my own poor view (Thomas Carlyle).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>toe the mark,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>to stand with the tips of the toes touching a certain line or mark, as before a race or contest. </I> <I>Ex. The chief mate ... marked a line on the deck, brought the two boys up to it, making them toe the mark (Richard H. Dana, Jr.).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>(Figurative.) to conform to a certain standard, as of duty or conduct. <BR> <I>Ex. He began to think it was high time to toe the mark (James K. Paulding).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>wide of the mark,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>missing the thing aimed at by a considerable margin. </I> <I>Ex. The shot fell wide of the mark.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>(Figurative.) irrelevant. <BR> <I>Ex. It may, however, be ... very wide of the mark when applied to the case (John R. McCulloch).</I> </DL>
