March

1. March
   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 ."
2. March
   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.", "Lords of waste marches , kings of desolate isles."
3. March
   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. "With solemn march Goes slow and stately by them.", "This happens merely because men will not bide their time, but will insist on precipitating the march of affairs."
4. March
   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 ."
5. March
   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."
6. March
   To move with regular steps, as a soldier; to walk in a grave, deliberate, or stately manner; to advance steadily.
7. March
   To proceed by walking in a body or in military order; as, the German army marched into France.

1. (n) march
   A frontier or boundary of a territory; a border; hence, a borderland; a district or political division of a country conterminous with the boundary-line of another country. In Scotland the term is commonly applied to the boundaries, or the marks which determine the boundaries, of conterminous estates or lands, whether large or small. The word is most familiar historically with reference to the boundaries between England and Wales and between England and Scotland. The latter were divided into two parts, the western and the middle marches, each of which had courts peculiar to itself, and a kind of president or governor, who was called warden of the marches. See mark, 13.
2. march
   To constitute a march or border; be bordering; lie continuously parallel and contiguous; abut.
3. march
   To dwell adjacent; neighbor.
4. march
   To walk with measured steps, or with a steady regular tread; move in a deliberate, stately manner; step with regularity, earnestness, or gravity: often used trivially, as in the expression, he marched off angrily.
5. march
   Specifically, to walk with concerted steps in regular or measured time, as a body or a member of a body of soldiers or a procession; move in uniform order and time; step together in ranks.
6. march
   To move in military order, as a body of troops; advance in a soldierly manner: as, in the morning the regiment marched; they marched twenty miles.
7. march
   To cause to move in military order, or in a body or regular procession: as, to march an army to the battle-field.
8. march
   To cause to go anywhere at one's command and under one's guidance: as, the policeman marched his prisoner to the lockup.
9. (n) march
   A measured and uniform walk or concerted and orderly movement of a body of men, as soldiers; a regular advance of a body of men, in which they keep time with each other and sometimes with music; stately and deliberate walk; steady or labored progression: used figuratively in regard to poetry, from its rhythm resembling the measured harmonious stepping of soldiery.
10. (n) march
    An advance from one halting-place to another, as of a body of soldiers or travelers; the distance passed over in a single course of marching; a military journey of a body of troops: as, a march of twenty miles.
11. (n) march
    Progressive advancement; progress; regular course.
12. (n) march
    A military signal to move, consisting of a particular drum-beat or bugle-call.
13. (n) march
    In music, a strongly rhythmical composition designed to accompany marching or to imitate a march-movement. The rhythm is usually duple, but it may be triply compound. Marches generally consist of two contrasted sections, the second of which (commonly called the trio) is softer and more flowing than the first, and is followed by a repetition of the first. Rapid marches are often called quicksteps or military marches. Slow marches are also called processional marches, and are further distinguished as funeral (or dead-), nuptial, triumphal, etc.
14. (n) march
    In weaving, one of the short laths placed across the treadles beneath the shafts of a loom.
15. (n) march
    In the game of euchre, a taking of all five tricks by one side.
16. (n) march
    The third month of our year, consisting of thirty-one days. It was the first month of the ancient Roman year till the adoption of the Julian calendar, which was followed by the Gregorian; previous to the latter it was reckoned the first month in many European countries, and so continued in England till 1752, the legal year there before that date beginning on the 25th of March.
17. (n) march
    The celery plant, Apium graveolens, and parsley, Petroselinum Petroselinum. Also merch.
18. (n) march
    An abbreviation of Marchioness.

1. (n) March
   märch the third month of the year, named from Mars, the god of war.
2. (n) March
   märch a border: boundary of a territory
3. March
   used chiefly in pl. March′es
4. (v.i) March
   to border: to be adjacent
5. (v.i) March
   märch to move in order, as soldiers: to walk in a grave or stately manner
6. (v.t) March
   to cause to march
7. (n) March
   the movement of troops: regular advance: a piece of music fitted for marching to: the distance passed over

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