mark tooth (marktoth)

A horse's tooth so marked as to indicate to some extent his age. See mark1, n., 3. At four years old there cometh the mark - tooth [in horses], which hath a hole as big as you may lay a pea within it; and that weareth shorter and shorter every year, till that at eight years old the tooth is smooth. Bacon , Nat. Hist., § 754. mark-whitet (märk'hwit), n. The center of a target. With daily shew of courteous kind behaviour, Event the marke - white of his hart she roved. Spenser, F. Q., V. v. 35. mark worthy (mark'wer" Tні), а . [ mark1 + worthy.] Worthy of mark or observation; deserving of notice; noteworthy. No spectacle is more mark worthy than that which our common law courts continually offer. Sir E. Creasy, Eng. Const., p. 225. marlı (märl), n. [ marle , merle , marle , merle , F. marne = D. MLG. mergel = OHG. mergil , MHG. G. mergel = Sw. Dan. mer gel , margila , marl, dim. of L. marg a (> It. Sp . Pg . marg a ), marl. Perhaps a Celtic word: cf. Bret. marg , marl; but the W. marl , Ir. Gael. marl a , marl, must be of E. origin.] A mixture of clay with carbonate of lime, the latter being present in considerable quantity, forming a ma which is not consolidated, but falls to pieces readily on exposure to the air. The word marl, however, is used so vaguely as to be often ambiguous; and in England some substances are thus designated in which there is no lime. Marl is a valuable fertilizing material for different kinds of soil, according to its composition. In New Jersey the mixtures of greensand with clay much used as fertilizers are commonly called marls. or greensand - marls, and many varieties thus designated contain no more than one or two per cent. of carbonate of lime. Marls and marly soils are especially well developed in the Permian and Tria ic of England and on the continent. The upper division of the Keuper in England is known as the "Red Marl Series," and in places reaches a thickne of 3,000 feet. These marls are largely quarried at various points for making bricks. See shell -marl. For lacke of dounge in sondy lande be spronge Goode marl , and it wol make it multi plie. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 180. IMG:content-0251.jpg:[blocks in formation]