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Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Pennywort \Pen"ny*wort`\, n. (Bot.)
   A European trailing herb ({Linaria Cymbalaria}) with
   roundish, reniform leaves. It is often cultivated in hanging
   baskets.

   {March}, or {Water}, {pennywort}. (Bot.) See under {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.

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

         Lords of waste marches, kings of desolate isles.
                                                  --Tennyson.

March \March\, 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.

         The stormy March is come at last, With wind, and cloud,
         and changing skies.                      --Bryant.

   {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.

March \March\, v. i. [Cf. OF. marchir. See 2d {March}.]
   To border; to be contiguous; to lie side by side. [Obs.]

         That was in a strange land Which marcheth upon
         Chimerie.                                --Gower.

   {To march with}, to have the same boundary for a greater or
      less distance; -- said of an estate.

March \March\, 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.

   2. To proceed by walking in a body or in military order; as,
      the German army {marched} into France.

March \March\, 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.

         March them again in fair array.          --Prior.

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.

            These troops came to the army harassed with a long
            and wearisome march.                  --Bacon.

   2. Hence: Measured and regular advance or movement, like that
      of soldiers moving in order; stately or deliberate walk;
      steady onward movement.

            With solemn march Goes slow and stately by them.
                                                  --Shak.

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

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

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

            The drums presently striking up a march. --Knolles.

   {To make a march}, (Card Playing), to take all the tricks of
      a hand, in the game of euchre.

Source : WordNet®

March
     n 1: the month following February and preceding April [syn: {Mar}]
     2: the act of marching; walking with regular steps (especially
        in a procession of some kind); "it was a long march"; "we
        heard the sound of marching" [syn: {marching}]
     3: a steady advance; "the march of science"; "the march of
        time"
     4: a procession of people walking together; "the march went up
        Fifth Avenue"
     5: district consisting of the area on either side of a border
        or boundary of a country or an area; "the Welsh marches
        between England and Wales" [syn: {borderland}, {border
        district}, {marchland}]
     6: genre of music written for marching; "Sousa wrote the best
        marches" [syn: {marching music}]
     7: a degree granted for the successful completion of advanced
        study of architecture [syn: {Master of Architecture}]
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