| march |
noun |
The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days., 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., To border; to be contiguous; to lie side by side., To move with regular steps, as a soldier; to walk in a grave, deliberate, or stately manner; to advance steadily., To proceed by walking in a body or in military order; as, the German army marched into France., 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., The act of marching; a movement of soldiers from one stopping place to another; military progress; advance of troops., Hence: Measured and regular advance or movement, like that of soldiers moving in order; stately or deliberate walk; steady onward movement., The distance passed over in marching; as, an hour’s march; a march of twenty miles., A piece of music designed or fitted to accompany and guide the movement of troops; a piece of music in the march form. |
| marry |
verb t. |
To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining, as a man and a woman, for life; to constitute (a man and a woman) husband and wife according to the laws or customs of the place., To join according to law, (a man) to a woman as his wife, or (a woman) to a man as her husband. See the Note to def. 4., To dispose of in wedlock; to give away as wife., To take for husband or wife. See the Note below., Figuratively, to unite in the closest and most endearing relation., To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife., Indeed ! in truth ! — a term of asseveration said to have been derived from the practice of swearing by the Virgin Mary. |