v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Countermarched p. pr. & vb. n. Countermarching. ] (Mil.) To march back, or to march in reversed order. [ 1913 Webster ]

The two armies marched and countermarched, drew near and receded. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A marching back; retrocession. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) An evolution by which a body of troops change front or reverse the direction of march while retaining the same men in the front rank; also, a movement by which the rear rank becomes the front one, either with or without changing the right to the left. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A change of measures; alteration of conduct. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such countermarches and retractions as we do not willingly impute to wisdom. T. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. démarche. See March, n. ] March; walk; gait. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. dh`marchos; dh^mos people + 'a`rchein to rule. ] A chief or ruler of a deme or district in Greece. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To march away. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. 1. to march a person against his will by any method. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. to carry someone against his will upside down such that each limb is held by one person. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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 ]

v. i. [ Cf. OF. marchir. See 2d March. ] To border; to be contiguous; to lie side by side. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

That was in a strange land
Which marcheth upon Chimerie. Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

prop. n. An oder of liverworts with gametophyte differentiated internally.
Syn. -- order Marchantiales. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The vernal equinox. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who marches. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See 2d March. ] The lord or officer who defended the marches or borders of a territory. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n., fr. March, v. [ 1913 Webster ]

Marching money (Mil.), the additional pay of officer or soldier when his regiment is marching. --
In marching order (Mil.), equipped for a march. --
Marching regiment. (Mil.) (a) A regiment in active service. (b) In England, a regiment liable to be ordered into other quarters, at home or abroad; a regiment of the line. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. marchionissa, fr. marchio a marquis. See Marquis. ] The wife or the widow of a marquis; a woman who has the rank and dignity of a marquis. Spelman. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Extremely rash; foolhardy. See under March, the month. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person living in the marches between England and Scotland or Wales. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. It. marzapane, Sp. pan, . massepain, prob. fr. L. maza frumenty (Gr. ma^za) + L. panis bread; but perh. the first part of the word is from the name of the inventor. ] A kind of sweet bread or biscuit; a cake of pounded almonds and sugar. Called also marzipan. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A warden of the marches; a marcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ LL. marcheta; of uncertain origin. ] In old English and in Scots law, a fine paid to the lord of the soil by a tenant upon the marriage of one the tenant's daughters. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the middle part of March. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; a district + -arch. ] The chief magistrate of a nome or nomarchy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Nomarchies A province or territorial division of a kingdom, under the rule of a nomarch, as in modern Greece; a nome. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To surpass in marching; to march faster than, or so as to leave behind. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To march too far, or too much; to exhaust by marching. Baker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; war + &unr_; leader, from &unr_; to be first. ] (Gr. Antiq.) In Athens, originally, the military commanderin-chief; but, afterward, a civil magistrate who had jurisdiction in respect of strangers and sojourners. In other Grecian cities, a high military and civil officer. [ 1913 Webster ]