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 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

With solemn march
Goes slow and stately by them. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

This happens merely because men will not bide their time, but will insist on precipitating the march of affairs. Buckle. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The distance passed over in marching; as, an hour's march; a march of twenty miles. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A piece of music designed or fitted to accompany and guide the movement of troops; a piece of music in the march form. [ 1913 Webster ]

The drums presently striking up a march. Knolles. [ 1913 Webster ]

To make a march, (Card Playing), to take all the tricks of a hand, in the game of euchre. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

March them again in fair array. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To proceed by walking in a body or in military order; as, the German army marched into France. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The stormy March is come at last,
With wind, and cloud, and changing skies. Bryant. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Geneva is situated in the marches of several dominions -- France, Savoy, and Switzerland. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lords of waste marches, kings of desolate isles. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Cookery) A sauce consisting of brown sauce with mushrooms and red wine or madeira.
Syn. -- mushroom wine sauce. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. The type genus of Marchantiaceae; liverworts that reproduce asexually by gemmae and have stalked antheridiophores.
Syn. -- genus Marchantia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. A natural family of liverworts with prostrate and usually dichotomously branched thalli.
Syn. -- family Marchantiaceae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]