Word Meanings - OVERMARCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To march too far, or too much; to exhaust by marching. Baker.

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• MARCHER
  One who marches.
• EXHAUSTION
  An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits. Note: The method of exhaustions was applied to great variety of propositions, pertaining to rectifications
• MARCH
  The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days. The stormy March is come at last, With wind, and cloud, and changing skies. Bryant. As mad as a March Hare, an old English Saying derived from the fact that March is the rutting time of hares,
• EXHAUSTIVE
  Serving or tending to exhaust; exhibiting all the facts or arguments; as, an exhaustive method. Ex*haust"ive*ly, adv.
• EXHAUSTURE
  Exhaustion. Wraxall.
• MARCHING
  ,fr. March, v. Marching money , the additional pay of officer or soldier when his regiment is marching. -- In marching order , equipped for a march. -- Marching regiment. A regiment in active service. In England, a regiment liable
• EXHAUSTLESS
  Not be exhausted; inexhaustible; as, an exhaustless fund or store.
• MARCHIONESS
  The wife or the widow of a marquis; a woman who has the rank and dignity of a marquis. Spelman.
• MARCH-MAD
  Extremely rash; foolhardy. See under March, the month. Sir W. Scott.
• BAKERY
  1. The trade of a baker. 2. The place for baking bread; a bakehouse.
• EXHAUSTIBILITY
  Capability of being exhausted. I was seriously tormented by the thought of the exhaustibility of musical combinations. J. S. Mill.
• EXHAUST
  To subject to the action of various solvents in order to remove all soluble substances or extractives; as, to exhaust a drug successively with water, alcohol, and ether. Exhausted receiver. See under Receiver. Syn. -- To spend; consume; tire out;
• MARCHET; MERCHET
  In old English and in Scots law, a fine paid to the lord of the soil by a tenant upon the marriage of one the tenant's daughters.
• EXHAUSTIBLE
  Capable of being exhausted, drained off, or expended. Johnson.
• MARCH-WARD
  A warden of the marches; a marcher.
• MARCHMAN
  A person living in the marches between England and Scotland or Wales.
• EXHAUSTMENT
  Exhaustion; drain.
• BAKER
  1. One whose business it is to bake bread, biscuit, etc. 2. A portable oven in which baking is done. A baker's dozen, thirteen. -- Baker foot, a distorted foot. Jer. Taylor. -- Baker's itch, a rash on the back of the hand, caused
• EXHAUSTING
  Producing exhaustion; as, exhausting labors. -- Ex*haust"ing, adv.
• MARCHPANE
  A kind of sweet bread or biscuit; a cake of pounded almonds and sugar. marzipan Shak. (more info) fr. L. maza frumenty + L. panis bread; but perh. the
• NOMARCH
  The chief magistrate of a nome or nomarchy.
• POLEMARCH
  In Athens, originally, the military commanderin-chief; but, afterward, a civil magistrate who had jurisdiction in respect of strangers and sojourners. In other Grecian cities, a high military and civil officer.
• UNEXHAUSTIBLE
  Inexhaustible.
• INEXHAUSTED
  Not exhausted; not emptied; not spent; not having lost all strength or resources; unexhausted. Dryden.
• OVERMARCH
  To march too far, or too much; to exhaust by marching. Baker.
• DISMARCH
  To march away.
• INEXHAUSTIVE
  Inexhaustible. Thomson.
• OUTMARCH
  To surpass in marching; to march faster than, or so as to leave behind.
• INEXHAUSTIBLE
  Incapable of being exhausted, emptied, or used up; unfailing; not to be wasted or spent; as, inexhaustible stores of provisions; an inexhaustible stock of elegant words. Dryden. An inexhaustible store of anecdotes. Macaulay. -- In`ex*haust"i*ble*ness,
• NOMARCHY
  A province or territorial division of a kingdom, under the rule of a nomarch, as in modern Greece; a nome.
• COUNTERMARCH
  To march back, or to march in reversed order. The two armies marched and countermarched, drew near and receded. Macaulay.