[mearc], st. f., frontier, limit, end: dat. sg. tô mearce (the end of life), [2385].—Comp. Weder-mearc, [298].
ge-mearc, st. n., measure, distance: comp. fôt-, mîl-ge-mearc.
[mearcian], w. v., to mark, stain: pres. ind. sg. mearcað môrhopu (will stain, mark, the moor with the blood of the corpse), [450].
ge-mearcian, the same: pret. part. (Cain) morðre gemearcod (murder-marked [cf. 1 Book Mos. IV. 15]), [1265]; swâ wäs on þæm scennum ... gemearcod ... hwâm þät sweord geworht wære (engraved for whom the sword had been wrought), [1696].
[mearc-stapa], w. m., march-strider, frontier-haunter (applied to Grendel and his mother): nom. sg., [103]; acc. pl. mearc-stapan, [1349].
[mearh], st. m., horse, steed: nom. pl. mearas, [2164]; acc. pl. mearas, [866], [1036]; dat. pl. inst. mearum, [856], [918]; mearum and mâðmum, [1049], [1899]; gen. pl. meara and mâðma, [2167].