March
- March
- March 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. [root]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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
2000.
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March — March, n. [F. marche.] 1. The act of marching; a movement of soldiers from one stopping place to another; military progress; advance of troops. [1913 Webster] These troops came to the army harassed with a long and wearisome march. Bacon. [1913… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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