Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Mar"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Maa \Maa\, n. [See {New} a gull.] (Zo["o]l.)
The common European gull ({Larus canus}); -- called also
{mar}. See {New}, a gull.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mew \Mew\, n. [AS. m?w, akin to D. meeuw, G. m["o]we, OHG. m?h,
Icel. m[=a]r.] (Zo["o]l.)
A gull, esp. the common British species ({Larus canus});
called also {sea mew}, {maa}, {mar}, {mow}, and {cobb}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mar \Mar\, n.
A mark or blemish made by bruising, scratching, or the like;
a disfigurement.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mar \Mar\, n.
A small lake. See {Mere}. [Prov. Eng.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mar \Mar\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Marred} (m["a]rd); p. pr. & vb.
n. {Marring}.] [OE. marren, merren, AS. merran, myrran (in
comp.), to obstruct, impede, dissipate; akin to OS. merrian,
OHG. marrjan, merran; cf. D. marren, meeren, to moor a ship,
Icel. merja to bruise, crush, and Goth. marzjan to offend.
Cf. {Moor}, v.]
1. To make defective; to do injury to, esp. by cutting off or
defacing a part; to impair; to disfigure; to deface.
I pray you mar no more trees with wiring love songs
in their barks. --Shak.
But mirth is marred, and the good cheer is lost.
--Dryden.
Ire, envy, and despair Which marred all his borrowed
visage. --Milton.
2. To spoil; to ruin. ``It makes us, or it mars us.''
``Striving to mend, to mar the subject.'' --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Mar
n : the month following February and preceding April [syn: {March},
{Mar}]
v 1: make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty" [syn: {impair},
{spoil}, {deflower}, {vitiate}]
2: destroy, as of a limb [syn: {mutilate}]
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