Defn: Sighing, suffocative panting, intercepted utterance, with a sense of pressure across the chest, occurring during sleep; the incubus; — obsolete, except in the compound nightmare. I will ride thee o' nights like the mare. Shak.
MARECHAL NIEL
Mare"chal Niel". Etym: [F.]
Defn: A kind of large yellow rose. [Written also Marshal Niel.]
MARE CLAUSUM
Ma"re clau"sum. [L.] (Internat. Law)
Defn: Lit., closed sea; hence, a body of water within the separate jurisdiction of the nation; — opposed to open sea, the water open to all nations and over which no single nation has special control.
MAREIS
Mar"eis, n.
Defn: A Marsh. [Obs.] Chaucer.
MARENA
Ma*re"na, n. Etym: [NL. Salmo maraena, G. maräne, moräne; — so
called from Lake Morin, in the March of Brandenburg, in Prussia.]
(Zoöl.)
Defn: A European whitefish of the genus Coregonus.
MARESCHAL
Mare"schal, n. Etym: [OF. mareschal, F. maréchal. See Marshal.]