MARCH
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March (m&ä;rch), n. [L. Martius mensis Mars'month fr. Martius belonging to Mars, the god of war: cf. F. mars. Cf. Martial.] The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days.
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The stormy March is come at last,
With wind, and cloud, and changing skies.
Bryant.
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As mad as a March Hare, an old English Saying derived from the fact that March is the rutting time of hares, when they are excitable and violent. Wright.
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March, n. [OE. marche, F. marche; of German origin; cf. OHG. marcha, G. mark, akin to OS. marka, AS. mearc, Goth. marka, L. margo edge, border, margin, and possibly to E. mark a sign. √106. Cf. Margin, Margrave, Marque, Marquis.] A territorial border or frontier; a region adjacent to a boundary line; a confine; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in English history applied especially to the border land on the frontiers between England and Scotland, and England and Wales.
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Geneva is situated in the marches of several dominions -- France, Savoy, and Switzerland.
Fuller.
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Lords of waste marches, kings of desolate isles.
Tennyson.
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March, v. i. [Cf. OF. marchir. See 2d March.] To border; to be contiguous; to lie side by side. [Obs.]
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That was in a strange land
Which marcheth upon Chimerie.
Gower.
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To march with, to have the same boundary for a greater or less distance; -- said of an estate.
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March, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Marched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Marching.] [F. marcher, in OF. also, to tread, prob. fr. L. marcus hammer. Cf. Mortar.] 1. To move with regular steps, as a soldier; to walk in a grave, deliberate, or stately manner; to advance steadily. Shak.
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2. To proceed by walking in a body or in military order; as, the German army marched into France.
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March, v. t. To cause to move with regular steps in the manner of a soldier; to cause to move in military array, or in a body, as troops; to cause to advance in a steady, regular, or stately manner; to cause to go by peremptory command, or by force.
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March them again in fair array.
Prior.
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March, n. [F. marche.] 1. The act of marching; a movement of soldiers from one stopping place to another; military progress; advance of troops.
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These troops came to the army harassed with a long and wearisome march.
Bacon.
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2. Hence: Measured and regular advance or movement, like that of soldiers moving in order; stately or deliberate walk; steady onward movement; as, the march of time.
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With solemn march
Goes slow and stately by them.
Shak.
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This happens merely because men will not bide their time, but will insist on precipitating the march of affairs.
Buckle.
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3. The distance passed over in marching; as, an hour's march; a march of twenty miles.
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4. A piece of music designed or fitted to accompany and guide the movement of troops; a piece of music in the march form.
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The drums presently striking up a march.
Knolles.
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To make a march, (Card Playing), to take all the tricks of a hand, in the game of euchre.
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