Mar

·noun A small lake. ·see Mere.

II. Mar ·v To Spoil; to Ruin.

III. Mar ·noun A mark or blemish made by bruising, scratching, or the like; a disfigurement.

IV. Mar ·v To make defective; to do injury to, ·esp. by cutting off or defacing a part; to Impair; to Disfigure; to Deface.

mar
to spoil. North. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
mar
Latin mare, the sea: a prefix, as Margate, the sea-way, &c. ...

The Sailor's Word-Book
Mar-text
·noun A blundering preacher. ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
beech-le-mar
(Fr. biche de mer.) A kind of slug taken on the coast of some of the South sea islands, where it is ...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.