To walk with measured steps, or with a steady regular tread; move in a deliberate, stately manner; step with regularity, earnestness, or gravity: often used trivially, as in the expression, he marched off angrily.
Specifically, to walk with concerted steps in regular or measured time, as a body or a member of a body of soldiers or a procession; move in uniform order and time; step together in ranks.
To move in military order, as a body of troops; advance in a soldierly manner: as, in the morning the regiment marched; they marched twenty miles.
To cause to move in military order, or in a body or regular procession: as, to march an army to the battle-field.
To cause to go anywhere at one's command and under one's guidance: as, the policeman marched his prisoner to the lockup.
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A measured and uniform walk or concerted and orderly movement of a body of men, as soldiers; a regular advance of a body of men, in which they keep time with each other and sometimes with music; stately and deliberate walk; steady or labored progression: used figuratively in regard to poetry, from its rhythm resembling the measured harmonious stepping of soldiery.
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An advance from one halting-place to another, as of a body of soldiers or travelers; the distance passed over in a single course of marching; a military journey of a body of troops: as, a march of twenty miles.
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Progressive advancement; progress; regular course.
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A military signal to move, consisting of a particular drum-beat or bugle-call.
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In music, a strongly rhythmical composition designed to accompany marching or to imitate a march-movement.
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In weaving, one of the short laths placed across the treadles beneath the shafts of a loom.
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In the game of euchre, a taking of all five tricks by one side.
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A frontier or boundary of a territory; a border; hence, a borderland; a district or political division of a country conterminous with the boundary-line of another country.
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An abbreviation of Marchioness.
To constitute a march or border; be bordering; lie continuously parallel and contiguous; abut.
To dwell adjacent; neighbor.
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The third month of our year, consisting of thirty-one days.
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The celery plant, Apium graveolens, and parsley, Petroselinum Petroselinum. Also merch.