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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Maa \Maa\, noun [See {New} a gull.] (Zo["o]l.) The common European gull ({Larus canus}); -- called also {mar}. See {New}, a gull.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mar \Mar\, noun A mark or blemish made by bruising, scratching, or the like; a disfigurement.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mar \Mar\, noun A small lake. See {Mere}. [Prov. Eng.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mar \Mar\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Marred} (m["a]rd); 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}, v.]
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. --Shak.
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mew \Mew\, noun [AS. m?w, akin to D. meeuw, G. m["o]we, OHG. m?h, Icel. m[=a]r.] (Zo["o]l.) A gull, esp. the common British species ({Larus canus}); called also {sea mew}, {maa}, {mar}, {mow}, and {cobb}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
Mar
noun
1: the month following February and preceding April [syn: {March}]
2: a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body); "a facial blemish" [syn: {blemish}, {defect}]
verb
1: make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty" [syn: {impair}, {spoil}, {deflower}, {vitiate}]
2: destroy or injure severely; "mutilated bodies" [syn: {mutilate}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
71 Moby Thesaurus words for "mar": be all thumbs, blemish, blight, blot, blunder, blunder away, blunder into, blunder on, blunder upon, boggle, botch, bruise, bumble, bungle, butcher, check, cicatrize, commit a gaffe, crack, craze, damage, deface, deform, destroy, disfigure, disproportion, distort, dysphemize, faux pas, flaw, flounder, fumble, harm, hurt, impair, kink, look a fright, look a mess, look bad, look like hell, look something terrible, lumber, miscue, misshape, muddle, muff, murder, mutilate, offend, offend the eye, play havoc with, prejudice, ruin, scab, scar, scarify, scratch, slip, split, spoil, stain, stumble, taint, tarnish, trip, truncate, twist, uglify, vitiate, warp, wreck
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Mar-Mac, NC -- U.S. Census Designated Place in North Carolina Population (2000): 3004 Housing Units (2000): 1485 Land area (2000): 4.381212 sq. miles (11.347287 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.027292 sq. miles (0.070687 sq. km) Total area (2000): 4.408504 sq. miles (11.417974 sq. km) FIPS code: 41540 Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37 Location: 35.331502 N, 78.046751 W ZIP Codes (1990): Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Mar-Mac, NC Mar-Mac Mar, NC Mar
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
MAR Microprogram Address Register (IC)
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