[syn: mutilate, mar]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Maa \Maa\, n. [See New a gull.] (Zool.)
The common European gull (Larus canus); -- called also
mar. See New, a gull.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mar \Mar\, n.
A mark or blemish made by bruising, scratching, or the like;
a disfigurement.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mar \Mar\, n.
A small lake. See Mere. [Prov. Eng.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mar \Mar\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Marred (m[aum]rd); p. pr. & vb.
n. Marring.] [OE. marren, merren, AS. merran, myrran (in
comp.), to obstruct, impede, dissipate; akin to OS. merrian,
OHG. marrjan, merran; cf. D. marren, meeren, to moor a ship,
Icel. merja to bruise, crush, and Goth. marzjan to offend.
Cf. Moor, v.]
1. To make defective; to do injury to, esp. by cutting off or
defacing a part; to impair; to disfigure; to deface.
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I pray you mar no more trees with wiring love songs
in their barks. --Shak.
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But mirth is marred, and the good cheer is lost.
--Dryden.
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Ire, envy, and despair
Which marred all his borrowed visage. --Milton.
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2. To spoil; to ruin. "It makes us, or it mars us." "Striving
to mend, to mar the subject." --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mew \Mew\, n. [AS. m?w, akin to D. meeuw, G. m["o]we, OHG. m?h,
Icel. m[=a]r.] (Zool.)
A gull, esp. the common British species (Larus canus);
called also sea mew, maa, mar, mow, and cobb.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Mar
n 1: the month following February and preceding April [syn:
March, Mar]
2: a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something
(especially on a person's body); "a facial blemish" [syn:
blemish, defect, mar]
v 1: make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty" [syn: mar,
impair, spoil, deflower, vitiate]
2: destroy or injure severely; "mutilated bodies" [syn:
mutilate, mar]