marielt

A Middle English form of marry1. as marinate. marinade2 (mar-i-nād'), n . [Cf. marinade1 .] In the West Indies, a little cake made of the edible core of the cabbage-palm. Those delicious little cakes called marinades , which you hear the colored peddlers calling out for sale. Marinæ (mā-rī'nē), n . pl . [NL. (Bentham and Hooker, 1883), fem. pl. of L. mar in us , marine.] A series of monocotyledonous marine plants of the natural order Hydro char ideæ , character- ized by having the cotyledon project beyond the thick radicle. It embraces the genera En- halus , Thala ia , and Halo phil a , natives of the Indian and South Pacific oceans. Thala ieæ . toward Dover. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 230. Every evening they solace themselves along the Marine, the men on horse-back, and the women in large Caro es. Sandys, Travailes, p. 192. 2. Shipping in general; the maritime interest as represented by ships; sea-going ve els considered collectively, either in the aggregate or as regards nationality or cla : as, the mercantile marine of a country; the naval marine. Holland is rapidly increasing her steam marine. D. A. Wells , Our Merchant Marine, p. 31. 3. In France, specifically, the naval establishment; the national navy and its adjuncts: as, the minister of marine, or of the marine. The first [factions] wished France to attend solely and thereby to overpower England on her own element. Burke, A Regicide Peace, ii.