Difference between revisions of "Mar"

<p> [[M`Ar, L]] marceo. </p> 1. To injure by cutting off a part, or by wounding and making defective as, to mar a tree by incision. <p> I pray you, mar no more trees by writing songs in their barks. </p> <p> Neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. &nbsp;Leviticus 19 </p> 2. To injure to hurt to impair the strength or purity of. <p> When brewers mar their malt with water. </p> 3. To injure to diminish to interrupt. <p> But mirth is marred, and the good cheer is lost. </p> 4. To injure to deform to disfigure. <p> Ire, envy and despair </p> <p> Marr'd all his borrow'd visage. </p> <p> His visage was so marred more than any man. &nbsp;Isaiah 52 </p> <p> [[Moral]] evil alone mars the intellectual works of God. </p> <p> This word is not obsolete in America. </p>

<p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' n.) A mark or blemish made by bruising, scratching, or the like; a disfigurement. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' n.) A small lake. See Mere. </p> <p> '''(3):''' ''' (''' v.) To make defective; to do injury to, esp. by cutting off or defacing a part; to impair; to disfigure; to deface. </p> <p> '''(4):''' ''' (''' v.) To spoil; to ruin. </p>

<p> A district in S. Aberdeenshire, between the Don and the Dee, has given a title to many earls; one was regent of [[Scotland]] in 1572, another, nicknamed "Bobbing Joan," led the Jacobite rising of 1715; on the death without issue of the earl in 1866 the question of succession was at issue; the Committee of Privileges granted it to his cousin, the [[Earl]] of Kellie, thereafter [[Mar]] and Kellie, and a Bill in [[Parliament]] awarding it to his nephew, who is thus Earl of Mar. </p>