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A stone or post used to indicate position and guide travellers.
1859, Henry Bull, A history, military and municipal, of the ancient borough of the Devizes:
I do remember a great thron in Yatton field near Bristow-way, against which Sir William Waller's men made a great fire and killed it. I think the stump remains, and was a mark for travellers.
depend upon it, you will speedily receive from me a letter of thanks for this as well as for every other mark of your regard during my stay in Hertfordshire.
A characteristic feature.
A good sense of manners is the mark of a true gentleman.
1642, , “(please specify the page)”, in Religio Medici, London: Andrew Crooke, →OCLC:
there is surely a physiognomy, which those experienced and master mendicants observe, whereby they instantly discover a merciful aspect, and will single out a face, wherein they spy the signatures and marks of mercy.
1624, Democritus Junior , “III.iv.2.6”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy:, 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
Doubt not of thine election, it is an immutable decree; a mark never to be defaced: you have been otherwise, you may and shall be.
A written character or sign.
The font wasn't able to render all the diacritical marks properly.
A stamp or other indication of provenance, quality etc.
With eggs, you need to check for the quality mark before you buy.
But vvhat a vvretched, and diſconſolate Hermitage is that Houſe, vvhich is not viſited by thee , and vvhat a VVayue, and Stray is that Man, that hath not thy Markes vpon him?
A skilfull archer ought first to know the marke he aimeth at, and then apply his hand, his bow, his string, his arrow and his motion accordingly.
1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 37:
To give them an accurate eye and strength of arm, none under twenty-four years of age might shoot at any standing mark, except it was for a rover, and then he was to change his mark at every shot; and no person above that age might shoot at any mark whose distance was less than eleven score yards.
An indication or sign used for reference or measurement.
2009, Michael Benson, Cons and Frauds, Infobase, →ISBN, page 21:
Another common form of short con is the shell game. This scam has the advantage of giving the criminal the ability to rip off many marks all at one location.
A mark saies my Lady. Let the mark haue a prick in't, to meate at, if it may be.
1749, , “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure , London: ">…] for G. Fenton , →OCLC:
her thighs were still spread, and the mark lay fair for him, who, now kneeling between them, displayed to us a side-view of that fierce erect machine of his.
(Rugby football, Australian rules football) A catch of the ball directly from a kick of 10 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.
(sports) The line indicating an athlete's starting-point.
(product design/engineering) The model number of a device; a device model.
The Mark I system had poor radar, and the Mark II was too expensive; regardless, most antiaircraft direction remained the responsibility of the Mark I Eyeball (as the jocular phrase calls it): that is, the operator's eye.
Limit or standard of action or fact.
to be within the mark
to come up to the mark
Badge or sign of honour, rank, or official station.
1605, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Coriolanus:
In the official marks invested, you / Anon do meet the Senate.
(nautical) One of the bits of leather or coloured bunting placed upon a sounding line at intervals of from two to five fathoms. (The unmarked fathoms are called "deeps".)
(heading)Attention.
1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure:
But faults so countenanced, that the strong statutes Stand like the forfeits in a barber's shop, as much in mock as mark
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Advertisements are from time to time inserted, stating that slaves have escaped marked with the lash, branded with red-hot irons, the initials of their master’s name burned into their flesh;
What Uncle Marc had been through as a slave marked him, I’m sure, but I don’t know how much. How can you know what a man would be like if he had grown up unmarked by horror?
It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today .
To create an indication of (a location).
She folded over the corner of the page to mark where she left off reading.
Some animals mark their territory by urinating.
To be an indication of (something); to show where (something) is located.
It was only four thirty but Gerald was marking his guests’ arrival with a Pimm’s,
(of things) To identify (someone as a particular type of person or as having a particular role).
His courage and energy marked him as a leader.
1815, Jane Austen, chapter 8, in Emma, volume 2, London: John Murray, page 134:
the son approached her with a cheerful eagerness which marked her as his peculiar object,
1901, Rudyard Kipling, chapter 5, in Kim, London: Macmillan, published 1902, page 115:
The black dress, gold cross on the watch-chain, the hairless face, and the soft, black wideawake hat would have marked him as a holy man anywhere in all India.
1968, Bessie Head, chapter 1, in When Rain Clouds Gather, Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, published 2013, page 1:
His long thin falling-away cheekbones marked him as a member of either the Xhosa or Zulu tribe.
Although the Second World War marked a turning away from inorganic chemicals as pesticides into the wonder world of the carbon molecule, a few of the old materials persist.
He bent his eyes involuntarily upon the father as he spoke, and marked his uneasiness, for he coloured directly and turned his head away.
1881, John Bascom, “Improvements in Language” in The Western: A Journal of Literature, Education, and Art, New Series, Volume 7, No. 6, December, 1881, p. 499,
it is to be remembered that a poor speller is a poor pronouncer. The ear does not mark the sound any more exactly than the eye marks the letters.
(sports) To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a pass easily.
(Australian rules football) To catch the ball directly from a kick of 15 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.
(golf) To put a marker in the place of one's ball.
(singing) To sing softly, sometimes an octave lower than usual, in order to protect one's voice during a rehearsal.
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1997, “Egil's Saga”, in Bernard Scudder, transl., The Sagas of Icelanders, Penguin, published 2001, page 91:
As a reward for his poetry, Athelstan gave Egil two more gold rings weighing a mark each, along with an expensive cloak that the king himself had worn.
1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford, published 2010, page 42:
George, on receiving it, instantly rose from the side of one of them, and said, in the hearing of them all, ‘I will bet a hundred merks that is Drummond.’
2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 167:
He had been made a royal counsellor, drawing a substantial annual salary of a hundred marks.
Jag lägger mig i gräset ner. Ligger still och bara ler. Slumrartill och snarkar tyst. Drömmer om en kvinnas byst. Då ser jag nån som emot mig går, liderlig med utsläppt hår. Hon är vacker som en dag. I samma stund såvaknar jag. Svär ett tag men tänker sen: Hon kommer nog till mig inatt igen. Ännu lyser solen stark i skog och mark.
I lie down in the grass . lie still and just grin . doze off and snore quietly. dream of a woman's bosom. Then I see someone walking towards me , lustful with her hair let down . She is pretty as a picture . At that moment I wake up. swear for a bit but then think: She will probably come to me tonight again . The sun still shines bright in woods and fields . s. See the usage notes for -r.]
ströva omkring i markerna
roam the countryside (for example)
Det är torrt i markerna
There are dry conditions ("It is dry in the lands," focusing on wild areas like forests, etc.)
vara ute i skog och mark
be out in the woods and fields
ground (distance, etc., similar to English – sometimes figuratively)