?vI A R
M A R
per,
by
dippinn
i:
oothe flat, asz.lfo Ji:lnen
c1olh,
be.
(y.
hut a qU.tlCTntty,
ti;: .
Ihe
ineff.lble, lil.!nce, the
M.ubliog:\ book
00
(he c"Jvers is performed
by
form·
fi\th~r.
and
[rurh.
ing cI:mds with aqua furtís, or fpirit of
\'ilrio!
mixed MARE,
lhe
female of the
horre
kind. Sec EQ...uus.
\Vith ink , aod a(tenvarJs glazing the
eovers.
M ARGARETTA,
On~
o( the Jarg' CI o( th. L e<ward.
~IARC:\SITES,
in
n;uural
hinory,
are: defioeJ
tO
be
íOands j
iI
is
auout
fifIy
miles long, and twt!nty·four
compound inflammable
m~(allic
bodies. of a hard and
brcad, and fitu:ued
""Iy
miles north of the comióeot
[olid fubClance, o( an ob(curelyand irregularly folia·
o( Puia, or New Andalur.a, in South America:
\V.
ceous nruélllre, of a
bricht glittering
appC!artlnce.
na·
long. 64°, and N. lat.
Il O
30',
turally eon(litllting \Vhole Hrata, ,hough fomotimes MARGARITA, the PEARL, io oatural hiClory. So.'
found
iD
detached malTt:s ; very freely giving lire with
PEARL.
!leel
j
DOt {ermenting with acid menClruums
j
"nel when MARGATE, a port-town of Kent, in lhe
iOe
of Tha-
putinto the lire, yieldinga bJueCulphu reous flame, and
toee,
12
miles nonh of Dcal.
afterwards calcining ioto a purplepowder. 1."'here are l\1ARIGNAN, a city :lnd porr·town of
Brazil~
lhe ca-
only th ree knowo fpe-.:it:s of this genus:
lo
The filver-
pital of the captainfhip of Marignan, fitu:ued at the
coloureJ marca(ite, found in
va{~
abundance in lead
mourh of the river St l\1<!ry: W. Ion. 44°, and S.
and tio mines.
:2 .
"he gold coJoured marcafite. 3. The
Jal.
2° 1
S'.
heavy pale.white Olarc..lite.
M i\RINER,
lhe Carne with failor. See SAILOR.
Marc.r.tes \Vere at firn f"1I¡}ofed to
be
al.non all M ARINO, a city of lt. ly, in the dllChy o(Uruino, th,
pure guld or filvcr, accorc!ing tu their colc¡ur; but ex-
capitOlI of [he territory of Marino. a )irtle (bte or
perience has (hewn, that if they contain
~ny
metal at
cOOlmooweahh, fimated on a
mouot~in
in the middh:.
all, no mc:thod has hitherto becn found of working:
of tite Pope's
t~rritories :
E .
I~Dg_
1 ;0
30/,
aod N .
them to adulltage. In Germany. indeed, the)" ex-
lah 44°.
traa (ulphur
.nJ
vitriol from the r.lver
m"cafi,e,~.ARJORAM,
in
bot.ny. , See ORlCANU>"
which t\Vo {ubCl.mcc:s are always contained in it
j
2nd M .4.RITIME. fomerhing rePoned
tO,
or bounded
by
the
befides thefe,
it
has ufl1ally a
qaa~l[hy
of arfenic.
It
fea: thus, a mari time province. or couOlry. is one
has beeo recommended as
j\
{lyptic, a(ter beiog c:l lci-
bouoded by [he fea; and a maritime kiogdom. or (late,
ned : hut as the arCc:nic may not be all carried off by
is one Ihat makes a coofiderable figure, or is very
that operation, its ufe as a medicine feems extremely
powerful at fea . H ence, by marilime powcrs, among
dangerolls.
the European nates. are llnderl100d Great Britain ando
M AR CGRAVE , or MARCRAVE, • de&ree
01
honour
HolI.nd.
in Germany anfwering
(O
our marquis .
SI
:f\1ARK
Ih( evnng(lijI's da)'.
a fd!ival of the Chri-
MARCG R AVIA, in botany, a genus o( the polyandri.
Ilian ehureh, obfen'ed April
2;.
.
monogyoia clafs. The coroll. conr.Cls of one petal,
SI
MARK ',
Coh",
a canonical book of the New Ten,.
and (he calix confins offix imbricatcd Icaves; and the
ment, being one of
t~e
(our gofpels.
berry has one celI, contajning many feeds. There is
Sr M ark wrote his gofpel at Rome. whcre ,he ac-
but one fpecies. a native of America.
companied St Peter, in the year of Chrill: 44. Ter-
M AR CH, ·in chronology, the third month of Ihe year,
tullian and olhers prcteod that St Mark was no more
confill:iog or thiu:y-ont days.
than ao amaoucnfis tO Se Peter, \Vho diétated this
MARCHANTIA, in bQtany, a genus of the cryptoga·
gofpel tO hi.n ; others a/firm, tha< he \Vrote it after
mia alg'" clafs. The calix o( the male is peltated, anci
St Peter's dealh . Nor are the learoed lefs di\'ided
covered below with monopculous corollz; the calix
as to the language tbis gofpel \Vas wrote in; fome
of the {emale is CdJile,
he:JI-lhaped~
and contatos ma-
afllrming
ir
was compofed in G reek, othcrs in
L~(in .
ny {eeds. There are: eight Cpecic9, (our of them na.-
Several of the ancieot heretics received ooly
l.hego-
1ives of Britaio. viz. the polymorphia, or common
{pel
(I(
Sr M ark: others among cbe catholics rejeéted
marchantía; the cruciata, or croCs·headed marchantía;
Ihe [weJve
I"n
verCes of this gofpel. The gofpel of
the hemiCpha:rica, or marCh marchantía; and the conica,
Sr Mark is properly an abridgmeot of tha.t of St
~1at-
or wart marchantia.
thew.
MARCHE, a trrritory of Lyonois, io France, ha-
Canon¡ of
SI
MARK, a congregation o( reiular canons,
ving Bere)' 00 Ihe rlonh, Burbooois and Auvergne on
{ounded at
~1anlUa,
hy
Albert Spinola a prien, to-
the ean, Limofin on the {outh, and P oiétou on the
wards Ihe end of the XIIth century. SpinoJa m:tde a
well:.
~
rule for them. which was approved, corre(leu, ami
M ARCHPURG, a to\Vn of G ermany, in the circle of
cnnfirmcd by feveral fucc!eding popes. About ,ho
Aunria and duchy of Sliria: W . long. 15°
so',
N.
year 1450, they were reforml!d, "nd {?lIowc:d ooly
lar.
47°.
Ihe rule of St Augulline. This congregatíon havin{!
MARCIONITES, ChriClian heretics in the Ild century,
!Iourifhed for the fpace of four hunorcd years, decli·
thU5 denominated from their leader Marcion, who
nc:d by linte and Iiule, and is now become extinét.
maintílined. that Ihere were twO principIes or gods,
Kllighls o/ S I
?\'IARK,
an order of k-ni:1hthood in the
a g.)ud and a b"d one.
repubJic of Venice, under fh e proteétion of St IYIark
M ARCOSIANS , a (ca o( Chrinian heretics in the Ild
,he ev.ogeliCl. The .rm, of the order . re,
~ulcs,
a
century,
Co
caIJe4 from thc:ir Itader M arcus, \Vho re-
lion wíngcd, or, with Ihis de\'lce.
PAX
TI
S I
MAR.eEprcCentcd lhe Cupreme Cod as confitting DOt of a trini·
E
v
A NGE L 1 STA.
T his order is never conferred but
00
thofe