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Webster 1913 Edition
Marish
Mar′ish
(măr′ĭsh)
, Noun.
Low, wet ground; a marsh; a fen; a bog; a moor.
[Archaic]
Milton.
Tennyson.
Mar′ish
,Adj.
1.
Moory; fenny; boggy.
[Archaic]
2.
Growing in marshes.
“Marish flowers.” Tennyson.
Webster 1828 Edition
Marish
MAR'ISH
,Noun.
MAR'ISH
,Adj.
Definition 2024
marish
marish
English
Alternative forms
Noun
marish (plural marishes)
- (now poetic or archaic) A marsh.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter primum, in Le Morte Darthur, book X:
- Thenne sir Tristram departed / and in euery place he asked & demaunded after sir Launcelot / but in no place he coude not here of hym whether he were dede or on lyue / […] / Soo syr Tristram rode by a forest and then̄e was he ware of a fayre toure by a mareyse on that one syde / and on that other syde a fayr medowe
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book XII:
- The Cherubim descended; on the ground / Gliding meteorous, as evening-mist / Risen from a river o'er the marish glides, / And gathers ground fast at the labourer's heel / Homeward returning.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter primum, in Le Morte Darthur, book X:
Adjective
marish (comparative more marish, superlative most marish)
- (now poetic or archaic) Marshy; growing in bogs or marshes.
- Tennyson
- And the silvery marish flowers that throng / The desolate creeks and pools among.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12:
- after the manner of Cards or Maps, the utmost limits of knowne Countries, are set downe to be full of thicke marrish grounds, shady forrests, desart and uncouth places.
- Tennyson
Manx
Preposition
marish
- with
- Va mee caggey marish my charrey. ― I was fighting with (i.e. alongside) my friend.
Inflection
Singular | Plural | ||||||
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Person | 1st | 2nd | 3rd m. | 3rd f. | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
Normal | marym | mayrt | marish | maree | marin | meriu | maroo |
Emphatic | maryms | mayrts | marishyn | mareeish | marinyn | meriuish | maroosyn |
Pronoun
marish
Derived terms
- marishyn (emphatic)