Definition of march

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March (n.) 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..

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Marchman :: Marchman (n.) A person living in the marches between England and Scotland or Wales.
Adar :: Adar (n.) The twelfth month of the Hebrew ecclesiastical year, and the sixth of the civil. It corresponded nearly with March..
Decampment :: Decampment (n.) Departure from a camp; a marching off.
Countermarch :: Countermarch (n.) A change of measures; alteration of conduct.
Pace :: Pace (n.) The length of a step in walking or marching, reckoned from the heel of one foot to the heel of the other; -- used as a unit in measuring distances; as, he advanced fifty paces..
Marchet :: Marchet (n.) Alt. of Merche.
Demarch :: Demarch (n.) March; walk; gait.
Haversack :: Haversack (n.) A bag or case, usually of stout cloth, in which a soldier carries his rations when on a march; -- distinguished from knapsack..
Markisesse :: Markisesse (n.) A marchioness.
Lock Step :: Lock step () A mode of marching by a body of men going one after another as closely as possible, in which the leg of each moves at the same time with the corresponding leg of the person before him..
Troop :: Troop (n.) A particular roll of the drum; a quick march.
Skirmisher :: Skirmisher (n.) Soldiers deployed in loose order, to cover the front or flanks of an advancing army or a marching column..
Margrave :: Margrave (n.) Originally, a lord or keeper of the borders or marches in Germany..
Cavalcade :: Cavalcade (n.) A procession of persons on horseback; a formal, pompous march of horsemen by way of parade..
March :: March (n.) The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days..
March :: March (v. i.) To proceed by walking in a body or in military order; as, the German army marched into France..
Marquis :: Marquis (n.) A nobleman in England, France, and Germany, of a rank next below that of duke. Originally, the marquis was an officer whose duty was to guard the marches or frontiers of the kingdom. The office has ceased, and the name is now a mere title conferred by patent..
Ban :: Ban (n.) An ancient title of the warden of the eastern marches of Hungary; now, a title of the viceroy of Croatia and Slavonia..
Wearisome :: Wearisome (a.) Causing weariness; tiresome; tedious; weariful; as, a wearisome march; a wearisome day's work; a wearisome book..
Flanker :: Flanker (n.) One who, or that which, flanks, as a skirmisher or a body of troops sent out upon the flanks of an army toguard a line of march, or a fort projecting so as to command the side of an assailing body..
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