March
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) 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.
(2): ( n.) The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days.
(3): ( v. i.) To border; to be contiguous; to lie side by side.
(4): ( v. i.) To move with regular steps, as a soldier; to walk in a grave, deliberate, or stately manner; to advance steadily.
(5): ( v. i.) To proceed by walking in a body or in military order; as, the German army marched into France.
(6): ( 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.
(7): ( n.) The act of marching; a movement of soldiers from one stopping place to another; military progress; advance of troops.
(8): ( n.) Hence: Measured and regular advance or movement, like that of soldiers moving in order; stately or deliberate walk; steady onward movement.
(9): ( n.) The distance passed over in marching; as, an hour's march; a march of twenty miles.
(10): ( n.) A piece of music designed or fitted to accompany and guide the movement of troops; a piece of music in the march form.
King James Dictionary [2]
M`ARCH, n. L. Mars, the god of war.
The third month of the year.
M`ARCH, To border on to be contiguous to.
M`Arch, L marceo
1. To move by steps and in order, as soldiers to move in a military manner. We say, the army marched, or the troops marched. 2. To walk in a grave, deliberate or stately manner.
Like thee, great son of Jove, like thee,
When clad in rising majesty,
Thou marchest down o'er Delos' hills.
M`ARCH, To cause to move, as an army. Buonaparte marched an immense army to Moscow, but he did not march them back to France.
1. To cause to move in order or regular procession.
M`ARCH, n.
1. The walk or movement of soldiers in order, whether infantry or cavalry. The troops were fatigued with a long march. 2. A grave, deliberate or solemn walk.
The long majestic march.
3. A slow or laborious march. 4. A signal to move a particular beat of the drum. 5. Movement progression advance, as the march of reason the march of mind.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [3]
The third month of our year; was before 1752 reckoned first month as in the Roman calendar, the legal year beginning on the 25th; it is proverbially dusty and stormy, and is the season of the spring equinox; it was dedicated to the Roman god Mars, whence the name.
