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Webster 1913 Edition

Mar

Mar

,
Noun.
A small lake. See
Mere
.
[Prov. Eng.]

Mar

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Marred
(märd)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Marring
.]
[OE.
marren
,
merren
, AS.
merran
,
myrran
(in comp.), to obstruct, impede, dissipate; akin to OS.
merrian
, OHG.
marrjan
,
merran
; cf. D.
marren
,
meeren
, to moor a ship, Icel.
merja
to bruise, crush, and Goth.
marzjan
to offend. Cf.
Moor
,
Verb.
]
1.
To make defective; to do injury to, esp. by cutting off or defacing a part; to impair; to disfigure; to deface.
I pray you
mar
no more trees with wiring love songs in their barks.
Shakespeare
But mirth is
marred
, and the good cheer is lost.
Dryden.
Ire, envy, and despair
Which
marred
all his borrowed visage.
Milton.
2.
To spoil; to ruin.
“It makes us, or it mars us.” “Striving to mend, to mar the subject.”
Shak.

Mar

,
Noun.
A mark or blemish made by bruising, scratching, or the like; a disfigurement.

Webster 1828 Edition

Mar

M`AR

,
Verb.
T.
[L. marceo.]
1.
To injure by cutting off a part, or by wounding and making defective; as, to mar a tree by incision.
I pray you, mar no more trees by writing songs in their barks.
Neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. Lev.19.
2.
To injure; to hurt; to impair the strength or purity of.
When brewers mar their malt with water.
3.
To injure; to diminish; to interrupt.
But mirth is marred, and the good cheer is lost.
4.
To injure; to deform; to disfigure.
Ire, envy and despair
Marr'd all his borrow'd visage.
His visage was so marred more than any man. Is.52.
Moral evil alone mars the intellectual works of God.
[This word is not obsolete in America.]

Definition 2024

mår

mår

See also: maar and Appendix:Variations of "mar"

Danish

Alternative forms

  • Maar (pre-1948 spelling)

Noun

mår c (singular definite måren, plural indefinite mårer)

  1. marten

Declension

Swedish

Verb

mår

  1. present tense of må.

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