March

·noun The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days.

II. March ·vi To Border; to be contiguous; to lie side by side.

III. March ·noun The distance passed over in marching; as, an hour's march; a march of twenty miles.

IV. March ·vi To proceed by walking in a body or in military order; as, the German army marched into France.

V. March ·vi To move with regular steps, as a soldier; to walk in a grave, deliberate, or stately manner; to advance steadily.

VI. March ·noun The act of marching; a movement of soldiers from one stopping place to another; military progress; advance of troops.

VII. March ·noun A piece of music designed or fitted to accompany and guide the movement of troops; a piece of music in the march form.

VIII. March ·noun Hence: Measured and regular advance or movement, like that of soldiers moving in order; stately or deliberate walk; steady onward movement.

IX. March ·vt TO cause to move with regular steps in the manner of a soldier; to cause to move in military array, or in a body, as troops; to cause to advance in a steady, regular, or stately manner; to cause to go by peremptory command, or by force.

X. March ·noun A territorial border or frontier; a region adjacent to a boundary line; a confine;

— used chiefly in the plural, and in English history applied especially to the border land on the frontiers between England and Scotland, and England and Wales.