marking ink (markingingk)

marking-iron (mär'king-i"èrn), n. A branding iron. mar kingly (mär'king-li), adv . In an attentive ma manner; observantly; heedfully. Pyrocles mar kingly hearkened to all that Dametas said. Sir P. Sidney , Arcadia, iv. marking-machine (mär'king-ma-shēn"), n . In coining , a machine used in the mint to swage the edges of coin-blanks, which it raises or throws all around, preparatory to milling. marking-nut (märking-nut), n . The fruit of an marl Oriental cashew - nut . See cashew - nut and bean1 . - Marking-nut oil, a painters' oil obtained from the kernels of marking-nuts. marking-plow (mär'king-plou), n. In agri ., a plow used for making small furrows to serve as guides in various operations, as in plowed land for planting corn, or in a field to be marked out for planting an orchard. markist, mark is est, n. Middle English spellings of marquis and marquis e . Chaucer . marklett (märk'let), n. mark; a badge. [ mark1 + -let.] A I am sure men use not to weare such manes; I am also sure Souldiers use to weare other mark lets or not a does in time of battell. N. Ward , Simple Cobler, p. 32. markman (märk'man), n.; pl. markmen (-men). 1t. Same as marksman . Ben . I aim'd so near, when I supposed you loved. Rom. A right good mark - man ! And she's fair I love. Shak., R. and J., i. 1. 212. 2. A member of a community owning a mark or joint estate in land. See mark1, n., 14. In the centre of the clearing the primitive village is placed; each of the mark - men has there his homestead, his house, court-yard, and farm-buildings. Stubbs , Const. Hist., § 24. markmote (märk'mōt), n. [ mark + motel .] A council or deliberate a embly of markmen. The village a embly, or markmote , would seem to have resembled the town-meetings of New England. J. Fiske , Amer. Pol. Ideas, p. 41. marksman (märks'man), n.; pl. marksmen (-men). [= Sw. märksman = Dan. mærkeds mand, standard-bearer; as mark's , po . of mark1 , + man .] 1. One who is skilful in shooting with a gun or a bow; one who readily hits the mark; a good shooter. But on an arm of oak, that stood betwixt The marks - man and the mark, his lance he fixt. Dryden, tr. of Ovid's Meta morph., viii. He was a fencer; he was a marksman; and, before he had ever stood in the ranks, he was already more than half a soldier. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xiii. 2. One who, not being able to write, makes his mark instead of signing his name. [Rare.] If you can avoid it, do not have marksmen for witne es. St. Leonards, Property Law, p. 170. ( Encyc . Dict.)