martinite (martin it)

A hydrous calcium phosphate occurring as a pseudomorph after gypsum in the island of Curaçao, West Indies. Martin mas (mär'tin-mas), n. [Formerly also Martimas, Martlemas; yearly term-day on which rents are paid, servants enter on their engagements, etc. - Martin mas beef, beef salted or smoked at Martin mas for winter use. Cf. mart3, 2. Under Charles the Second it was not till the beginning of November that families laid in their stock of salt provision, then called Martin mas beef. Macaulay , Hist. Eng., iii. Martin proce . See proce . martin-snipe (märʼtin-snip), n. The green sandpiper, Totanus ochropus: so called from some fancied resemblance to the house-martin. Ste venson, Birds of Norfolk. [Norfolk, Eng.] martin-swallow (mär' tin-swol"ō), n. The European uropean house-martin, Chelidon urbica. martiret. An obsolete form of martyr and mar tyry.