marronnage, n.m., state of a runaway slave; running away (of slaves); carrying on the business of a broker without a license.
☉marronner, v.a., to curl the hair with curling-tongs.
marronnier, n.m., (bot.) French chestnut-tree, chestnut-tree. — d’Inde; horse-chestnut-tree.
marrube, n.m., (bot.) madwort; horehound; bugle-weed.
mars (mars), n.m., March; (chem.) Mars (iron); (astron.) Mars; (fig., poet.) war. pl., seed sown in spring. Giboulées de —; April showers. Champ de —; (milit.) large drilling ground. Cela vient comme — en carême; that comes very seasonably, or in the nick of time.
marseillaise, n.f., Marseillaise (French national anthem).
marsouin, n.m., (mam.) porpoise, sea-hog; ugly wretch. Vilain —; ugly, disagreeable man.
marsupial, -e, adj., (natural hist.) marsupial.
martagon, n.m., (bot.) martagon, mountain-lily, Turk’s-cap.
marte, n.f. V. martre.