markgravet

An obsolete variant of mar grave. markhor, markhoor (märkôr, -kör), n. [Also markhore, markhur; an E. Ind. name.] An Asiatic variety of wild goat, closely related to the common domestic goat, but having long, ma ive, spirally twisted horns; Capra falconer i, also called C. mega ceros and C. jerdoni. marking (mär'king), n. and a. [ tic arrangement of marks, as lines or dots, or of natural coloring: as, the markings on a bird's eggs, or of the petals of a flower; the natural markings of a gem or of ornamental wood. There is. no record of a tertiary marking on a diatom having been observed before. Jour. Roy . Micros. Soc., 2d ser., VI. ii. 321. Annular markings. See annular duct, under annular. Marking of goods, in Scots law, one of those forms of constructive delivery by which an attempt is made to transfer the property of a thing sold while the seller retains po e ion. Thus, the property of cattle sold while grazing is transferred by their being marked for the buyer, if in the herds or field of a third person. II. a. 1. Making a mark; hence, distinguishing; significant; striking. The most marking incidents in Scottish history - Flodden, Darien, or the Forty five-were still either failures or defeats. R. L. Stevens on , The Foreigner at Home. in which a market is held. Many an English market-town has an open market - house with arches, with a room above for the administration of justice or any other public purpose. E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 32.