march ward (march ward)

A warden of the marches; a marcher. Marciant, a. An obsolete spelling of Martian. marcidt (mär's id), a. [=OF. marcide = Pg. It. marcido, He on his own fish pours the noblest oil;... That, to your marcid dying herbs a igned, By the rank smell and taste betrays its kind. W. Bowles, in Dryden's tr. of Juvenal's Satires, v. 123. 2. Causing or accompanied by wasting and feeblene . A burning colliquative fever, the softer parts being melted away, the heat continuing its a dust i on upon the drier and fleshy parts, changes into a marcid fever. Harvey. (Latham.) marcidity (mär-sid'i-ti), n. [