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单词 marrow
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marrown.1

Brit. /ˈmarəʊ/, U.S. /ˈmɛroʊ/
Forms:

α. Old English mearch (rare), Old English mearg, Old English merg (Anglian), Old English–early Middle English mearh, early Middle English marh, early Middle English merih, Middle English margh, Middle English marghe, Middle English margthe, Middle English merȝ, Middle English merghe (northern), Middle English merȝþ, Middle English merȝþe, Middle English–1500s marȝ, Middle English–1500s mergh, 1500s marthe, 1500s merche; Scottish pre-1700 mairch, pre-1700 march, pre-1700 marche, pre-1700 mearch, pre-1700 mearche, pre-1700 merche, pre-1700 1700s–1800s merch, pre-1700 1700s–1800s mergh.

β. late Old English miri- (in a derivative), Middle English marigh, Middle English meari, Middle English merryghe, Middle English–1500s maree, Middle English–1500s marie, Middle English–1500s mariȝ, Middle English–1500s mary, Middle English–1500s marye, Middle English–1500s mery, 1500s marry; also Scottish 1900s– marrie.

γ. early Middle English merurh (transmission error), Middle English marew, Middle English maro, Middle English marogh, Middle English maroghe, Middle English marouȝ, Middle English marouh, Middle English marowȝ, Middle English marrouh, Middle English maruȝ, Middle English marw, Middle English marwa, Middle English marwe, Middle English marwȝ, Middle English marwhe, Middle English merewe, Middle English merewȝ, Middle English merȝw, Middle English meroȝ, Middle English merouȝ, Middle English merow, Middle English merowe, Middle English merowȝ, Middle English merowth, Middle English merwȝ, Middle English morough, Middle English nerwȝ (perhaps transmission error), Middle English–1500s marughe, Middle English–1500s merwe, Middle English–1600s marowe, 1500s maraow, 1500s marough, 1500s maroughe, 1500s marow, 1500s marrough, 1500s–1600s marrowe, 1500s– marrow, 1700s maroow; also regional 1800s– marra, 1900s– marra', 1900s– marrer; also Orkney 1900s– murro; also Irish English 1700s–1800s marrough, 1800s– morrow.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian merg, merch, Middle Dutch maerch, merch, morch, murch (Dutch merg), Old Saxon marg (Middle Low German march, margh, margk, mark, merch), Old High German marac, marc, marag, marg, mark (Middle High German mar, marc, mark, German Mark), Old Icelandic mergr (Icelandic mergur), Old Swedish miærgher (Swedish märg), Danish marv. These Germanic words have a number of Indo-European cognates with the sense ‘marrow, pith’, e.g. Sanskrit majjā (for the prehistoric form inferrable from the Sanskrit word, see M. Mayrhofer, Etymol. Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen (1993) II. xiv. 291–2), Avestan mazga-, Khotanese mäjsā, Persian maγz-, Tocharian A mäśśunt, Old Church Slavonic mozgŭ (most current Slavonic forms, e.g. Russian mozg, also have the sense ‘brain’), Old Prussian musgeno. N.E.D. (1905) recorded the use of mærh , maerh in two Old English glossaries to render Latin lucanica a kind of sausage or haggis, and noted that ‘this was probably a mistranslation’. However, modern studies suggest that, alongside Old English mearg (also regularly mearh ) marrow, with etymological -g , there existed from a different Indo-European base a word mearh sausage, with etymological -h (as recorded in Épinal), cognate with West Frisian marge sausage, Old Icelandic mǫrr suet, sausage (Icelandic mör suet), Norwegian (Nynorsk) mor minced meat, sausage (Early Irish mar sausage, haggis (compare in the same sense maróc ) is probably a loan from a Scandinavian language); compare also Old English mearh-gehæc , mearh-hæccel a kind of sausage meat. The two words were probably already confused in Old English: the Antwerp Gloss. gives the gloss mearh for both medulla marrow and lucanica sausage, while the Cleopatra Gloss. has mearg for the same two lemmata. Senses 2 and 4b, and probably also senses 1b and 1c, are after post-classical Latin senses of classical Latin medulla (in sense 4b used in book titles from the late 15th cent., frequently in the 17th cent.); the classical Latin senses ‘one's inmost part (physically or emotionally), pith of a tree or plant, kernel of a nut, interior, quintessence’ may also have affected senses of the English word. The development of sense 5 is uncertain. The compound marrowfat n. is the earliest application to a vegetable, followed by vegetable marrow , first applied to the avocado (1788: see vegetable marrow n. at vegetable adj. Compounds 2, and compare quot. 1764 at sense 2) and subsequently to the squash. It is unclear here (as in other contexts relating to edible parts of plants) whether the primary sense is ‘pith, inner pulp’ (see sense 2) or ‘richness (as of bone marrow)’ (see sense 3).
I. Senses relating to a central substance.
1.
a. The soft, fatty material contained in the cavities of bones, consisting chiefly of adipose and haematopoietic tissue, spec. as an article of food. In Medicine now chiefly as bone marrow: see bone n.1red, yellow marrow: see the first element.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > part or joint of animal > [noun] > marrow
marroweOE
the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > substance of bones > [noun] > bone-marrow
marroweOE
braina1398
medulla?a1425
bone marrow1590
eOE Corpus Gloss. (1890) 78/2 Medulla, merg.
OE Ælfric Gloss. (St. John's Oxf.) 298 Medulla, mearh.
OE tr. Medicina de Quadrupedibus (Vitell.) xi. 266 Wið..leoða sarum nim leon gelynde & heortes mearg, mylt & gemeng tosomne, smyre mid þæt sar ðæs lichoman.
?a1200 (?OE) Peri Didaxeon (1896) 19 Oft mann smeaþ, hwæþer teþ bænene beon, forþan þe ælc ban mearh hæfþ, and hy nan mearh nabbaþ.
c1225 (?c1200) St. Juliana (Bodl.) 53 Þet meari bearst ut, imenget wið þe blode.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Job xxi. 24 Þe bones of hym ben moistid with marwȝ [v.r. marȝ; a1425 L.V. merowis, v.r. merowe].
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1965) Psalms lxv. 15 Brent sacrifises ful of mergh. [v.r. merȝ; a1425 L.V. merowȝ] I shal offren to þee.
?c1425 Recipe in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (Arun. 334) (1790) 453 Take..pouder of pepur and maree..and if ye have no maree take of the self talgh.
a1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 44 Þen take merow & putte it on a straynourys ende.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) iv. ii. 38 The subtell quent fyre Waistis and consumis merch, banis, and lyre.
1539 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 31 Marowe is more dilectable than the brayne.
1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 297 That done, take Suger clarified, and the Maree of a Beefe.
1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse 61 The Nucha or soft pappe and marrow of the chein bone.
1717 M. Prior Alma iii. 214 He din'd on Lion's marrow, spread On toasts of ammunition-bread.
1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper vi. 154 Shred half a Pound of Marrow very fine.
1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto VII viii. 69 By Souvaroff, or anglicè Suwarrow, Who loved blood as an Alderman loves marrow.
1896 J. Cleland & J. Y. Mackay Human Anat. 30 Marrow is of two kinds, the yellow..and the red.
1938 Amer. Home Oct. 62/2 Blanch two ounces of beef marrow in boiling salted water.
1968 Brain 91 200 17..out of 45 of them in whom the sternal marrow was examined showed megaloblastic haemopoiesis.
1992 Watertown (N.Y.) Daily Times 26 Jan. g10/1 Unlike horns, they [sc. antlers] are living bone, though solid and without marrow.
b. The substance occupying the spinal canal; the spinal cord. Usually with distinguishing word; later always spinal marrow. Now rare.bulb of spinal marrow: see bulb n. 3.
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > spine > [noun] > marrow of
marrowa1398
medulla?a1425
spinal marrow1578
pith1594
chine-marrow1661
thorny marrow1662
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 63v For marouȝ..of þe riggebones..hatte nucha among phisicians.
?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 41 (MED) Nuka, or the marowe of þe bakke, is sprongen fro þe hyndermore partie of þe brayne..of þe whiche spryngen principaly þe movynge synowes.
1541 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) i. i. 13 The mary of the backbone.
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 871 Of these Nerues..others are deriued from the Brayne and the spinall Marrow.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §750 The Back-Bone hath one Kinde of Marrow, which hath an Affinity with the Braine.
1794 E. Darwin Zoonomia I. 75 The sensorial power, or spirit of animation,..is perpetually renewed by the secretion or production of it in the brain and spinal marrow.
1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. (1879) i. ii. §61. 62 The spinal cord (commonly termed the spinal marrow).
1910 Encycl. Brit. IV. 790/2 Should the bull need a coup de grâce, it is given..with a dagger which pierces the spinal marrow.
1968 Brain 91 670 Pressure had been made upon the spinal marrow close to and below the medulla oblongata.
†c. Originally: the inner substance or white matter of the brain. In later use: (more fully oblong marrow) the medulla oblongata. Obsolete.
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the world > life > the body > nervous system > cerebrospinal axis > brain > parts of brain > [noun] > medulla oblongata
marrowa1398
medulla oblongata1668
medulla1722
oblongated marrow1822
macromyelon1846
myelencephalon1871
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 38v Þe heed semeþ hard..in bone, neþeles wiþinne he haþ moche neisschnes and marouȝ.
a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 116 (MED) Þe brayn haþ sum substaunce of marie [L. aliquam medulle substantiam], þe which fulfilliþ þe voidenes of þe forseid panniclis.
a1475 Revelations St. Birgitta (Garrett) (1929) 83 (MED) The fende putt the brayns of the kyng bytwyx his kneys lyke a presse, and streyned it strongly..tyll all the merowth was as thyne as the lefe of a tre.
1651 ‘A. B.’ tr. L. Lessius Sir Walter Rawleigh's Ghost 87 The inward medulla or marrow of the brain.
1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) iii. Introd. 127 The Brain, the Petty-brain, and the Marrow.
1681 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Anat. Brain in Five Treat. xiii. 101 Out of the same tract of the oblong Marrow [L. medullae oblongatae], lesser paths are carried outwardly, here and there, by particular Nerves, arising from the same, within the Skull.
d. In extended or hyperbolical use: the tissue of a person's bones imagined as sensitive to extremes of heat, cold, pain, fear, etc., or used to signify the innermost part of a person's being. Cf. quick n.1 3b.In 16th- and 17th-cent. uses, frequently imagined as being burnt or melted by love or sexual desire. to feel something in one’s marrow: to have a strong intuition or hunch about something. Cf. bone n.1 Phrases 1b(c).
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1520 R. Whittington Uulgaria sig. F.viiv A man myght as soone pyke mary out of a mattok, as dryue .iij. good latyn wordes out of your fortop.
1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. Biiij My flesh is soft, and plumpe, my marrow burning. View more context for this quotation
1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. N3 They basted him with a mixture of Aqua fortis, allam water, and Mercury sublimatum, which..searcht him to the marrowe.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 109 When at the Spring's approach their Marrow burns..The Mares to Cliffs of rugged Rocks repair. View more context for this quotation
1764 C. Churchill Duellist i. 12 O for a noble curse Which might his very marrow pierce.
1798 R. Southey Bp. Bruno 62 His marrow grew cold at the touch of Death.
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xvii. 25 The very marrow in my bones is cold.
1864 O. W. Holmes Guardian Angel in St. Pauls Mar. 697 I was born to be a poet. I feel it in my marrow.
1886 R. Kipling Departm. Ditties (1888) 22 For twenty reeking minutes, Sir, my very marrow froze.
1908 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables iii. 39 The whole apartment was of a rigidity..which sent a shiver to the very marrow of Anne's bones.
1911 Z. Gale Mothers to Men ix. 237 ‘An' I'm glad of it, to my marrow.’ ‘I know,’ says Mis' Toplady, wiping her eyes. ‘I donno but my marrow might get use' to it.’
1946 K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) x. 143 Never a thing in Lost Haven but what the Thornes don't suck the marrer out of her.
1966 J. Schaefer Coll. Stories 17 ‘We've got more than the makings,’ he says. ‘I feel it in my marrow the way Big Joe did a few moments ago.’
1970 L. Deighton Bomber (1972) xvii. 266 The cold chilled the aeroplane to its marrow and slowed its circulation.
1986 E. Longford Pebbled Shore (1988) ii. 19 The Chamberlains were..unorthodox to the marrow of their bones.
2. The pith or innermost part of a plant or tree; the pulp or edible inner part of a fruit; the kernel of a grain or nut. Now rare. marrow of wheat n. [after post-classical Latin medulla tritici (Vulgate, Deuteronomy 32:14), which translates Hebrew ḥēleḇ kilyōṯ ḥiṭāh: compare the 1611 version, ‘the fat of kidneis of wheat’] the finest grade of flour.
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the world > food and drink > food > flour > [noun] > fine flour
marrow of wheateOE
gruel1333
maine flourc1440
tearc1440
manchet floura1450
pollen1523
amyl1577
blancheen1601
smeddum1808
cones1844
Vienna1868
Spanish white1882
the world > plants > part of plant > cell or aggregate tissue > [noun] > tissue > pith or soft internal tissue
marroweOE
pitheOE
flesh1574
fat1575
pulp1578
medulla1583
brain1601
matrix1633
eOE Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) iii. lxx. 358 Wiþ magan wærce wudu þistles þone grenan mearh þe biþ on þam heafde sele him etan mid hatan ele.
OE Lambeth Psalter: Canticles vi. 244 Cum medulla tritici : mid mearche hwætes.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 137v He..makeþ floure, piþþe, & maroghe encrece in corne and greynes.
c1400 Comm. on Canticles (Bodl. 288) in T. Arnold Sel. Eng. Wks. J. Wyclif (1871) III. 36 And geet wiþ marwȝ of wheete.
?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. iii. pr. xi. 128 Thei drawen alle here norysschynges by here rootes..and sheden be hir maryes, hir wode, and hir bark.
tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iv. 477 Thay seyn their bitter margh wol chaunge swete.
tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) xi. 236 (MED) Yf a tender tree Me kitte at footis tweyne, and thenne hit cleue Vnto the roote, and with an yron se The mary rased out.
1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 1v It that is within, whiche they cal the marye, the pythe, and the harte.
1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 30 The Alder tree..is in his Wood and inwarde Marie very soft.
1623 J. Bingham tr. Xenophon Hist. 31 This was the place, where the Souldiers first fed vpon the Marrow of the Nuts of Palme.
1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Cive Take some sweet Almonds.., pound 'em with some Vinegar, and strain 'em thro' a Linnen-cloth.., that you may have the Marrow or Milk of them.
1764 J. Grainger Sugar-cane i. 31 And thou green avocato, charm of sense, Thy ripened marrow liberally bestow'st.
1793 T. Martyn Lang. Bot. sig. M Marrow, medulla. The pith of a vegetable.
1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Medullosus, having or full of marrow, or pith; applied to a stem that is filled with pith.
1933 J. Hilton Lost Horizon (1949) vii. 160 He would always hesitate to reach the succulent marrow when he was eating a piece of sugar-cane.
II. In figurative and other extended senses.
3.
†a. Nourishing richness; the most rich, succulent, or nourishing part of something. Frequently in marrow and fatness. Obsolete.Usually with biblical allusion.
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the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [noun] > nourishing food
milkeOE
marrowa1382
cordialc1405
nutritivec1475
nutrient1828
flesh-former1873
macromineral1966
macronutrient1968
phytonutrient1994
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. xlv. 18 I schall ȝeue to ȝou all þe goodez of Egypte þat ȝe eten þe merghe [a1425 L.V. merow; L. medullam] of þe lond.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms lxii[i]. 5 My soule is satisfied euen as it were with marry & fatnesse.
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1953) I. 192 Pith and marrow to give a succulencie, and nourishment, even to the bones, to the strength and obduration of sin.
1671–2 H. More Let. 2 Jan. in Conway Lett. (1992) App. B. 526 It is such a joy as is healthy to the navell and marrow to the bones.
1818 W. Hazlitt Lect. Eng. Poets (1870) vi. 151 His words are of marrow—unctuous, dropping fatness.
1845 G. P. R. James Arrah Neil I. iv. 69 He left that paper with me, which he said must be marrow and fatness to all well-disposed noblemen like yourself.
1871 E. F. Burr Ad Fidem v. 79 The marrow, and fatness of this imperial diet.
b. The innermost or central part of something; see also sense 4a. Cf. core n.1 14.
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the world > space > relative position > central condition or position > [noun] > central part > central or innermost part
hearteOE
yolk1340
centruma1398
marrow1434
core1614
kernela1642
centrals1649
nucleus1702
centrepiece1739
R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Mending of Life 118 Þe inhirliest mergh of our hartis.
c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 91 Wene we not þe gospel to be in wordis of writingis, but in wit; not in ouer face, but in þe merowe.
1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Jas. i. f. xxviiiv Expressing by godly workes, that which he sticked fast in the marye of the soule.
1616 J. Smith in R. H. Pearce Colonial Amer. Writing (1956) 15 Begging from their Princes generous disposition, the labours of his subjects, and the very marrow of his maintenance.
1823 C. Lamb My Relations in Elia 168 He never pierces the marrow of your habits.
1975 F. Exley Pages from Cold Island xii. 222 Watertown is not in my marrow, it is my marrow.
1990 Amer. Poetry Rev. Mar. 54/2 The bareness is the marrow of that richness.
c. (The seat of) a person's vitality and strength.In quots. a1616 and 1630, with specific reference to sexual potency.
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > substance of bones > [noun] > bone-marrow > as seat of strength
marrowa1450
a1450 Seven Sages (Cambr. Dd.1.17) (1845) 1685 My lordys merryghe hys welne gone.
1576 A. Fleming tr. Isocrates in Panoplie Epist. 154 If I were in the pearle of my youth, and had in my bones marrowe..I wold not [etc.].
1606 Returne from Pernassus iv. iii. sig. G4v Spending the marrow of their flowring age, In fruitelesse poring on some worme eate leafe.
a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) ii. iii. 278 Spending his manlie marrow in her armes. View more context for this quotation
1630 P. Massinger Picture sig. G4 There is no such soker As a yonger songie wife, she keepes a thousand Horse leches in her box, and the thieues will sucke out Both bloud, and marrow.
1793 T. Holcroft tr. J. C. Lavater Ess. Physiognomy (abridged ed.) xvii. 87 All English women..appear to be composed of marrow and nerve.
1818 G. Beattie John o' Arnha' (ed. 2) 40 Alack-a-day! waesucks for John! His mergh an' mettle now are gone.
1845 B. Disraeli Sybil III. vi. x. 264 I was always against washing; it takes the marrow out of a man.
1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold II. v. iii. 28 The pith and marrow of English manhood.
1901 R. Kipling Kim iii. 77 The marrow that makes a man.
4.
a. The vital or essential part of something, the essence.pith and marrow: see pith n. 4a.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > essence or intrinsic nature > [noun]
pitheOE
i-cundeeOE
roota1325
substancec1330
juicec1380
marrowa1382
formc1385
acta1398
quidditya1398
substantial forma1398
inward1398
savourc1400
inwardc1450
allaya1456
essencya1475
being1521
bottom1531
spirit?1534
summary1548
ecceity1549
core1556
flower1568
formality1570
sum and substance1572
alloy1594
soul1598
inwardness1605
quid1606
fibre1607
selfness1611
whatness1611
essentialityc1616
propera1626
the whole shot1628
substantiala1631
esse1642
entity1643
virtuality1646
ingeny1647
quoddity1647
intimacy1648
ens1649
inbeing1661
essence1667
interiority1701
intrinsic1716
stamen1758
character1761
quidditas1782
hyparxis1792
rasa1800
bone1829
what1861
isness1865
inscape1868
as-suchness1909
Wesen1959
the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > stone fruit > [noun] > avocado
alligator pear1696
avocado1697
aguacate1758
marrow1763
butter fruit1902
butter pear1947
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1965) 1 Esdras Prol. l. 75 Þe werkes deuyded, oþer thing bern in þe rynde, oþer thing þei holden in þe marwȝ.
c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Gouernaunce of Princis (1993) xxxv. 114 And he yat tuichis nerest the quhite, and best gais nere the merche.
1531 W. Tyndale Answere Mores Dialoge f. ij He never leveth serchinge till he come at the botome, the pith, the quycke, the liffe, the spirite, the marye and verye cause why.
1570 H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. x. f. 232 Wherein standeth the pith and mary of the hole science.
1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered vii. 20 You set vpon him with this..Libell, wherein is contained the marrow of your wisedome.
1614 T. Gentleman Englands Way to win Wealth 12 They haue sucked out all the marrow of the Mault, and good Scotsh-ale.
1659 J. Milton Considerations touching Hirelings 137 To how little purpose are all those piles of sermons,..bodies and marrows of divinity, besides all other sciences, in our English tongue.
1665 J. Bunyan Holy Citie (1669) 169 Christ in all his Benefits is the very Marrow, Life and Sum of all their Teaching.
1763 G. Colman Deuce is in Him Prol. 3 Thus gave at once the bards of Greece The cream and marrow of the piece.
1858 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire VI. lv. 322 The clients and retainers of the old nobility..still formed the pith and marrow of the commonwealth.
1895 J. Barlow Strangers at Lisconnel 258 He had sent ‘the marrow of it’ to his sister.
1967 V. Nabokov Let. 1 Jan. in Sel. Lett. (1989) 397 The backbone and marrow of émigré culture.
1990 M. Dibdin Vendetta (1991) 52 Get-out clauses..allowing them to suck the lucrative marrow out of a project without having to tackle the boring bits.
†b. In the titles of books: the key points or sum of knowledge of a particular subject, field, etc.; a compendium or digest of writings in a subject. Chiefly in 16th- and 17th-cent. titles; somewhat archaic in later use. Obsolete.
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1620 N. Byfield (title) The Marrow of the Oracles of God, or Divers treatises, containing directions about six of the waightiest things can concerne a Christian in this life.
1638 W. Ames (title) The Marrow of Sacred Divinity, drawne out of the holy Scriptures.
1647 J. Trapp (title) Mellificium theologicum or the marrow of many good authours.
1650 S. Clark (title) The Marrow of Ecclesiastical Historie.
1688 J. Bishop (title) The Marrow of Astrology.
1728 W. Halfpenny (title) Magnum in parvo; or, the Marrow of Architecture.
?1790 (title) The Filberd: or, the compleatest Medley of Wit ever yet published: being the marrow of all other jest-books, etc.
1803 J. Glas (title) The Marrow of ancient Divinity, showing the import of John I. 17.
1847 ‘Luther’ & ‘Melancthon’ (title) The Marrow of the Controversy. The facts and figures between the Rev. Dr. Reed and the Directors of the London Missionary Society.
1886 B. Gregory (title) The Marrow of Methodism: twelve sermons [by John Wesley].
c. Church History. Short for or in allusion to The Marrow of Modern Divinity, the title of a book by Edward Fisher (1645, republished with notes by the Revd. James Hog in 1718), which proposed a middle way between legalistic and antinomian Calvinism, and which was condemned by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1720 as antinomian in tendency. Usually attributive with reference to the prolonged controversy which this engendered, or to those people who defended the book or its views; spec. in Marrow man.
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1721 J. Hog Controv. Marrow Mod. Divinity 55 If the Marrow must be condemned, let it be condemned upon a cleanly Ground.
1725 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 204 The Marrow people.
a1732 T. Boston Memoirs (1776) xi. 364 The assembly's act condemning the Marrow.
1853 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. 1689–1748 II. xx. 319 Those who adhered to this document, received the party-title of the Marrow-men.
1853 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. 1689–1748 II. xx. 319 The Marrow controversy.
1894 S. R. Crockett Lilac Sunbonnet i. 12 Allan Welsh, minister of the Marrow Kirk in the parish of Dullarg.
1954 J. T. McNeill Hist. & Char. Calvinism 356 In fact the Marrow, while essentially Calvinist, brought to rigid Scottish Calvinism a fresh stimulus from Luther's early triumphant message... Ebenezer Erskine..when rebuked by the Assembly (1722) continued to teach the Marrow doctrines.
1979 G. G. Cameron Scots Kirk in London 232 Boston died in 1731; and without his saintly moderating influence the Marrow Men tended to argue their case with increasing acrimony.
III. In the names of vegetables.
5.
a. vegetable marrow n.
†(a) The fruit of the avocado, Persea gratissima Obsolete.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > stone fruit > avocado
shell-pear1672
alligator pear1696
avocado1697
vegetable marrow1788
subaltern's butter1816
midshipman's butter1866
Holy Ghost pear1886
1788 P. Marsden Acct. Island Jamaica 78 The Alicada..is the fruit, the inside of which Sir Hans Sloane calls the vegetable marrow, and indeed it is equally good, as nutritive, and more pleasant to the taste than the finest marrow.
a1818 M. G. Lewis Jrnl. W. India Proprietor (1845) 107 One of the best vegetable productions of the island is esteemed to be the Avogado pear, sometimes called ‘the vegetable marrow’..I could find no great merit in them.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 867/1 They [sc. avocado pears] contain a large quantity of pulp possessing a..marrow-like taste, and are hence frequently called Vegetable Marrow or Midshipman's Butter.
(b) (Chiefly British) any of various kinds of squash or gourd which are chiefly the fruits of varieties of Cucurbita pepo, eaten as a vegetable; esp. one of the larger round or cylindrical kinds with green, white, or striped skins and greenish-white or (occasionally) yellowish pulpy flesh; (also) the plant producing these, a trailing or sometimes bushlike annual with deep yellow flowers; cf. courgette n., zucchini n.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > fruits as vegetables > [noun] > vegetable marrow
vegetable marrow1822
marrow1855
succade gourd1866
zucchini1929
courgette1931
vegetable spaghetti1973
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > fruits as vegetables > vegetable marrow
vegetable marrow1822
succade gourd1866
vegetable spaghetti1973
1822 J. Sabine in Trans. Hort. Soc. London (ed. 3) 2 255 (title) A description and account of the cultivation of a variety of gourd called vegetable marrow.
1882 Garden 25 Mar. 191/3 In no other country does one see so many Vegetable Marrows as in this.
1931 E. Lucas Vegetable Cookery 266 Courgettes may be treated in the same way as vegetable marrows.
1960 Guardian 15 July 8/7 The miniature vegetable marrows called courgettes in France and zucchini in Italy.
b. = sense 5a(b).
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > fruits as vegetables > [noun] > vegetable marrow
vegetable marrow1822
marrow1855
succade gourd1866
zucchini1929
courgette1931
vegetable spaghetti1973
1855 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Kitchen Garden 119 In boiling ripe marrows, take out the pith and seeds.
1902 T. W. Sanders Encycl. Gardening (ed. 5) 88 Young shoots of marrows & gourds can be used as a substitute for spinach.
1955 Times 9 July 1/5 A baby marrow was scooped out, fried in olive oil, then stuffed with lobster.
1978 J. Grigson Veg. Bk. (1983) 533 You may well wonder why anyone lets the delicious courgette fatten and bulge into the watery marrow.
†6. = marrowfat n. 2. Obsolete.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > pea > other types of pea or pea-plant
rouncival1570
garden pea1573
field pease1597
vale-grey1615
rose pea1629
hotspur1663
seven-year pea1672
rathe-ripe1677
huff-codc1680
pigeon pea1683
hog-pease1686
shrub pea1691
field pea1707
pea1707
crown pea1726
maple rouncival1731
marrowfat1731
moratto1731
pig pea1731
sickle-pea1731
hog pea1732
maple pea1732
marrow pea1733
black eye?1740
egg-pea1744
magotty bay bean1789
Prussian1804
maple grey1805
partridge pea1812
Prussian blue1822
scimitar1834
marrow1855
fill-basket1881
string-pea1891
mattar1908
vining pea1959
1855 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. II. 578/1 The Prince Albert pea is also an early sort; so also are the Auvergne, St. Helier's New Wrinkled Marrow [etc.].
1882 Garden 15 July 58/3 A dwarf round blue Marrow.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
a.
marrow-eater n.
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1612 W. Parkes Curtaine-drawer 8 Lust, the marrow-eater of the world, the canker of health.
1999 Re: Hare the Stumper in alt.religion.mormon (Usenet newsgroup) 10 Nov. Man..was primitively a great marrow eater.
b.
† marrow-boiling adj. Obsolete
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [adjective] > causing sexual excitement or desire
sweet in (the, one's) beda1300
provocatoryc1443
provocative?a1505
marrow-burning?1592
marrow-eating1593
marrow-melting1593
tickle1604
marrow-boiling1605
venereous1611
venerious1620
veneral1651
aphrodisiacal1719
erogenic1887
erogenous1889
erotogenic1909
erotogenous1928
pervy1945
bodacious1991
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 289 Their marrow-boyling loues.
† marrow-burning adj. Obsolete
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [adjective] > causing sexual excitement or desire
sweet in (the, one's) beda1300
provocatoryc1443
provocative?a1505
marrow-burning?1592
marrow-eating1593
marrow-melting1593
tickle1604
marrow-boiling1605
venereous1611
venerious1620
veneral1651
aphrodisiacal1719
erogenic1887
erogenous1889
erotogenic1909
erotogenous1928
pervy1945
bodacious1991
?1592 Trag. Solyman & Perseda sig. G4v Such is the force of morrow [sic] burning loue.
marrow-chilling adj.
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1869 J. W. Meader Merrimack River 45 The hardiest wild bird..plunges boldly under the snow to escape the marrow-chilling breath of the dread monarch of this land.
1991 R. W. B. Lewis Jameses ii. v. 124 She had a marrow-chilling habit of lurking outside the door of William's bedroom, whispering hoarsely.
marrow-eating adj.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [adjective] > causing sexual excitement or desire
sweet in (the, one's) beda1300
provocatoryc1443
provocative?a1505
marrow-burning?1592
marrow-eating1593
marrow-melting1593
tickle1604
marrow-boiling1605
venereous1611
venerious1620
veneral1651
aphrodisiacal1719
erogenic1887
erogenous1889
erotogenic1909
erotogenous1928
pervy1945
bodacious1991
1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. Eiijv The marrow-eating sicknesse whose attaint, Disorder breeds by heating of the blood. View more context for this quotation
1659 Lady Alimony in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1875) XIV. 295 Let our cornutos harbour That marrow-eating fury.
1996 Re: Amalgam '97 in rec.arts.comics.dc.universe (Usenet newsgroup) 3 Dec. Why does a marrow eating demon claim to be her brother?
marrow-freezing adj.
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1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre I. xv. 295 A marrow-freezing incident enough. This was a demoniac laugh.
1900 Sketch 21 Feb. 191/2 A play..of a rather marrow-freezing kind.
1989 Sports Illustr. 18 Dec. 14/1 Temperatures dropped..and the windchill hit a marrow-freezing −110.
marrow-melting adj.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [adjective] > causing sexual excitement or desire
sweet in (the, one's) beda1300
provocatoryc1443
provocative?a1505
marrow-burning?1592
marrow-eating1593
marrow-melting1593
tickle1604
marrow-boiling1605
venereous1611
venerious1620
veneral1651
aphrodisiacal1719
erogenic1887
erogenous1889
erotogenic1909
erotogenous1928
pervy1945
bodacious1991
1593 B. Barnes Parthenophil & Parthenophe 16 My faithes true steeles Tempred on anueile of thine harts could flint Strikes marrow-melting fier into mine eyes.
a1618 J. Sylvester Tetrastica xlvi, in Wks. (1880) II. 27 That heart-swelting, Marrow-melting Fire.
1639 T. D. Bloodie Banquet v. ii. sig. G3v Ha? thunder? and thou marrow melting blast Quicke winged lightning.
2002 Re: Prime Rib Horror Story in rec.food.cooking (Usenet newsgroup) 1 Jan. Is it like a marrow-melting thing that adds to the flavor?
marrow-piercing adj.
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1893 Mind 2 100 Rarely does a man get the chance of letting fly such a marrow-piercing phrase at his foes!
1938 E. Bishop in Partisan Rev. Aug. 64 Their marrow-piercing guesses are whatever you believe.
marrow-searching adj.
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?1623 O. Felltham Resolues lxvi. 215 Wishing..that he had such wings, as could procure his escape from death, and marrow-searching Iudgement.
2004 www.love2learn.net 11 May (O.E.D. Archive) Keen and marrow-searching, the morning wind rose along the shore of Maryland.
marrow-thrilling adj.
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1888 G. M. Fenn Dick o' the Fens 281 A strange marrow-thrilling cry.
C2.
marrow cabbage n. = marrow-stem n.
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1855 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. I. 321/2 Applied to this [sc. the tree cabbage] are the thousand-headed cabbage,..the marrow cabbage, or chou moellier, the stems of which are succulent enough to be boiled for human food, and many more.
1888 Amer. Naturalist 22 979 The plant [sc. kohlrabi] in its sportings under culture tends to the form of the marrow cabbage, of which it is probably a derivative.
1910 Jrnl. Dept. Agric. N.Z. 15 Oct. 354 Chou moellier (Marrow cabbage): Ruakura. This comparatively new plant is proving valuable as a fodder crop.
marrow cell n. Physiology a haemopoietic stem cell or other immature blood cell occurring in bone marrow.
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > substance of bones > [noun] > bone-marrow > cell of
marrow cell1856
myelocyte1891
myeloblast1904
premyelocyte1905
1856 Quain's Elements Anat. (ed. 6) I. p. cxxii It [sc. the red-coloured marrow] contains minute, roundish nucleated cells—the proper marrow-cells of Kölliker.
1901 Johns Hopkins Hosp. Bull. 12 43/1 A myeloma does not originate in the marrow cells as a whole.
1986 D. Koontz Strangers i. ii. 200 An unusual chemical environment in the marrow cavity and in the haversian canals..actually encourages the growth of marrow cells.
marrow gut n. U.S. an edible internal organ of a cow or bison, esp. the small intestine of a calf.
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1847 F. S. Edwards Campaign in New Mexico 29 The part most esteemed by hunters is the small entrails, about a foot in length, and called by the delectable term, ‘marrow guts’.
1894 Harper's Mag. Feb. 351/2 William..glowing with heat and pride over his corn-cakes and ‘marrow-gut’.
1940 C. L. Brown et al. Amer. Cooks 530 Marrow Gut consists of the intestines of nursing veal that still have the curd of mother's milk in them.
1981 L. A. Pederson et al. Ling. Atlas Gulf States 0874/037 Marrow guts—small intestines of calf, as food.
marrow kale n. = marrow-stem n.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > cabbage or kale > [noun] > marrow kale
marrow kale1872
marrow-stem kale1920
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > cabbage or kale > marrow-stem kale
marrow kale1872
marrow-stem kale1920
1872 R. Hogg in Jrnl. Royal Hort. Soc. 3 174 Marrow Kale..is the Chou moellier of the French, a form of the Jersey kale which produces a long, thickly swollen stem like a gigantic cigar, the swollen part being filled with a mass of tender pith.
1885 W. Miller tr. Veg. Garden (Vilmorin-Andrieux & Cie) 141 The Kohl-Rabi is only a Marrow Kale with the stem shortened into the form of a ball.
Marrow man n. see sense 4c.
marrow oil n. a kind of hair oil (cf. marrowfat n. 1).
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > preparations used on the hair > [noun]
lye1556
lotium1595
lavature1601
wash1670
lavatory1694
hair-oil1810
marrow oil1855
hairdressing1907
haircare1935
1855 F. Duberly Let. 29 Jan. in E. E. P. Tisdall Mrs. Duberly's Campaigns (1963) iv. 124 I want you to write to Savory & Moore, Bond St. for 2 Large Bottles Marrow Oil, 4 Bottles of Bandoline.
1864 A. Trollope Can you forgive Her? I. xl. 310 All his apparatus for dressing,—his marrow oil for his hair, [etc.].
† marrow pasty n. Obsolete = marrow pie n.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > pasty > [noun] > types of pasty
dariole?a1400
sambouse1609
venison pastya1616
flapjack1620
stucklinga1655
apple pasty1664
keech1677
marrow pasty1696
flap-apple1750
pâté1768
hoglinga1825
bridie1833
empanada1866
Cornish pasty1877
pelmeni1926
tiddy oggy1942
oggy1948
stromboli1950
samosa1955
1696 W. Salmon Family-dict. (ed. 2) Marrow-Pasty: Take six Marrow-Bones [etc.].
1728 E. Smith Compl. Housewife (ed. 2) 115 To make Marrow Pasties. Make your little Pasties the length of a finger, and..put in large pieces of Marrow, dipped in Eggs and seasoned.
1791 Mrs. Frazer Pract. of Cookery iv. 99 A Marrow Pasty... Take three quarters of a pound of marrow cut in pieces... If you are scrimped of marrow, make it up with beef-suet shred very fine.
marrow pea n. = marrowfat pea at marrowfat n. 2.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > pea > other types of pea or pea-plant
rouncival1570
garden pea1573
field pease1597
vale-grey1615
rose pea1629
hotspur1663
seven-year pea1672
rathe-ripe1677
huff-codc1680
pigeon pea1683
hog-pease1686
shrub pea1691
field pea1707
pea1707
crown pea1726
maple rouncival1731
marrowfat1731
moratto1731
pig pea1731
sickle-pea1731
hog pea1732
maple pea1732
marrow pea1733
black eye?1740
egg-pea1744
magotty bay bean1789
Prussian1804
maple grey1805
partridge pea1812
Prussian blue1822
scimitar1834
marrow1855
fill-basket1881
string-pea1891
mattar1908
vining pea1959
1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xxii. 165 Sufficient for all Sorts of Corn and Seeds which we commonly sow, from Marrow Pease to Turnep Seed.
1885 W. Miller tr. Veg. Garden (Vilmorin-Andrieux & Cie) 387/1 July is the month for excellent Marrow Peas.
1992 San Francisco Chron. 2 Dec. (Contra Costa ed.) z27 9/6 Some of the more exotic items are Batchelors mushy peas (yes, they're pre-mushed marrow peas at $1.35 a can) [etc.].
marrow pie n. a pie containing beef marrow.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > pie > [noun] > meat-pie
rafiolea1425
shred-pie1573
Florentine1579
marrowbone pie1595
marrow pie1598
meat pie1607
mutton pie1607
olive pie1615
venison piea1616
flesh-pie1616
veal (and ham) piea1625
godiveau1653
lumber-pie1656
mermaid pie1661
umble-pie1663
humble piea1665
trotter-pie1693
stump pie1695
mugget pie1696
pot-pie1702
squab-pie1708
pork pie1723
steak pie1723
Perigord pie1751
pasticcio1772
fidget pie1790
muggety pie1800
numble pie1822
Florentine pie1823
pastilla1834
kidney-pie1836
beef-steak pie1841
stand pie1872
Melton Mowbray1875
timbale1880
pâté en croûte1929
tourtière1953
growler1989
1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie i. iii. sig. C7 Hence Holy-thistle, come sweet marrow pie, Inflame our backs to itching luxurie.
1674 T. P. et al. Eng. & French Cook 157 Marrow Pyes. Take Veal, mince it [etc.].
1849 W. H. Ainsworth Lancashire Witches iii. ix There were lumbar pies, marrow pies, quince pies [etc.].
marrow-pudding n. (a) a pudding made with beef or vegetable marrow; †(b) Jamaican a kind of worm, not identified (probably a flatworm) (obsolete).
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > puddings > [noun] > other puddings
alker1381
moile1381
tansyc1450
tansy-cakea1475
hasty pudding1598
hodge-puddinga1616
bread pudding1623
marrowbone pudding1623
marrow-pudding1631
turmeric puddinga1704
Indian pudding1722
Westminster fool1723
pease pudding1725
pone1725
bread and butter pudding1727
custard pudding1727
purry1751
tartan-purry1751
tansy-pudding1769
vermicelli pudding1769
skimmer-cake1795
dogsbody1818
kugel1823
stickjaw1827
kheer1832
pea pudding1844
dough1848
mousseline1876
mousse1885
goose-pudding1892
payasam1892
tartan1893
malva puddinga1981
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Annelida > [noun] > member of
worma1100
brailed worm1496
marrow-pudding1756
annelid1813
annelidan1835
setiger1842
1631 B. Jonson Divell is Asse ii. i. 165 in Wks. II No youths, disguis'd Like country-wiues, with creame, and marrow-puddings.
1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. iii. 383 Fasciola 4. Marina major verucosa. The warted Marrow-Pudding. Fasciola 5. Marina maxima glabra. The large smooth Marrow-Pudding.
1906 S. J. Weyman Chippinge xiii. 126 Those who cared not for plum-puddings could have marrow-puddings.
marrow scoop n. = marrow spoon n.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > spoon
tiremoelle1669
marrow spoon1693
scoop1747
marrow scoop1755
cooking spoon1848
measuring spoon1926–7
apple scoop1969
1755 N.Y. Gaz. & Weekly Post-boy 16 June 3/3 (advt.) Last Saturday Night the House of James Mills.., Tavern Keeper, was broke open and rob'd..of sundry Things of Value, among which were..Silver Marrow Scoup.
1969 E. H. Pinto Treen 79 The marrow scoop and toothpick are missing.
1972 Collector's Guide Aug. 10/2 (advt.) Fine Marrow Scoop (crested), by Wm. Chawner, 1763, £40.
† marrow sheath n. Obsolete = medullary sheath n. at medullary adj. Compounds.
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1854 Amer. Farmer's New & Universal Handbk. 450 The buds of trees are originated in the young shoots in the axils of the leaves, and when the bud begins to grow, its connection with the marrow sheath ceases.
1889 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Marrow sheath, the white matter of Schwann surrounding the cylinder axis of medullated nerve fibre.
marrow spoon n. a spoon for extracting the marrow from bones.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > spoon
tiremoelle1669
marrow spoon1693
scoop1747
marrow scoop1755
cooking spoon1848
measuring spoon1926–7
apple scoop1969
1693 London Gaz. No. 2853/4 1 Sweat-meat Spoon, 1 Marrow Spoon, 1 Ladle and Skillet.
1734 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 129 One silver Maroow spoon [sold for 10s.].
1829 C. Lamb Let. 27 Feb. (1935) III. 211 Most took it for a marrow spoon, an apple scoop, a banker's guinea shovel.
1970 Canad. Antiques Collector Mar. 23/1 There were numerous objects such as soup ladles..marrow scoops and marrow spoons [etc.].
marrow squash n. North American = sense 5.
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1844 G. Emerson Johnson's Farmer's Encycl. (new ed.) 1009 Autumnal marrow squash (Cucurbita succado) introduced to notice by John M. Ives, Esq., of Salem.
1854 H. D. Thoreau Let. 8 Aug. in Corr. (1958) 331 How is it with your marrow squashes for winter use?
1867 J. H. Gregory Squashes 49 Autumnal Marrow Squash.—This is also known as the Boston Marrow.
1905 tr. Veg. Garden (Vilmorin-Andrieux & Cie) (new ed.) 321 Boston Marrow Squash.
1993 Washington Times 11 Aug. e8/5 15 years ago you could only purchase huge, mealy marrow squash instead of the..small, tender zucchini possible to find these days.
marrow-stem n. (in full marrow-stem kale) a variety of kale, a cross between kohlrabi and thousand-headed kale, with thick succulent stems grown for fodder; also called chou moellier.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > cabbage or kale > [noun] > marrow kale
marrow kale1872
marrow-stem kale1920
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > cabbage or kale > marrow-stem kale
marrow kale1872
marrow-stem kale1920
1920 Conquest Apr. 256/3 In place of grass it is possible to grow crops such as cabbage, vetches, rape, marrowstem kale, [etc.].
1925 Malden & Nisbet in W. G. R. Paterson Farm Crops II. 191 The Marrow-stem Kale is what is known as a ‘variety-hybrid’. That is, it is the result of crossing two distinct varieties—the kohl-rabi and the Thousandhead Kale, each a variety of Brassica oleracea.
1925 Malden & Nisbet in W. G. R. Paterson Farm Crops II. 194 Mildews and moulds do less damage to the marrow stem than to turnips.
1959 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 170/1 Thousand-headed kale resists frost to a greater extent than marrow-stem.
1972 D. H. Robinson Fream's Elem. Agric. (ed. 15) x. 281 Marrowstem Kale is capable of producing very large quantities of greenstuff greatly relished by stock.
1989 G. M. de Rougemont Field Guide Crops Brit. & Europe 126/2 Marrow-stem Kale..has a much thickened (edible) stem up to 10 cm in diameter.
marrow-stemmed kale n. = marrow-stem n.
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1946 A. Nelson Princ. Agric. Bot. xxiii. 463 Marrow-stemmed kale, broccoli, and cauliflower all will show very characteristic symptoms when grown in soil deficient in nitrogen.
1947 G. M. Taylor Brit. Herbs & Vegetables 16 The great Brassica genus is now divided into three groups... The first group consists of forms with eighteen chromosomes, and is as follows: Curly Kale..Perpetual Kale, Marrow-stemmed Kale [etc.].
1961 I. Molnar Man. Austral. Agric. 214 The Marrow Stemmed Kale (chou mollier) is a kale with a swollen axis.

Derivatives

ˈmarrow-like adj. resembling marrow or a marrow.
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1847 W. H. Edwards in Southern Q. Rev. July 160 The substance about this [sc. mangaba, or alligator pear] is soft and marrow-like.
1851 F. K. Hunt in Househ. Words 27 Sept. 14/1 The centre of the hair has a little canal, full of an oily, marrow-like substance.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 876/1 Persea gratissima... They contain a large quantity of firm pulp possessing a buttery or marrow-like taste, and are frequently called Vegetable Marrow or Midshipman's Butter.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 756 A gumma which looks yellowish and marrow-like just before breaking down.
† marrowly adj. Obsolete marrowy, fat.
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eOE Junius Psalter lxv. 15 Holocausta medullata offeram tibi : onsægdnessa mearglice ic offrige ðe.
OE Cambridge Psalter (1910) lxv. 15 Holocausta medullata offeram tibi : onsægdnysse mirilice ic onsecge þe.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

marrown.2

Brit. /ˈmarəʊ/, U.S. /ˈmɛroʊ/, Scottish English /ˈmarə/, Irish English /ˈmæroʊ/, /ˈmærə/
Forms: late Middle English marewe, late Middle English margh, late Middle English maroo, late Middle English marwe, late Middle English 1600s marowe, 1500s marroll, 1600s marroe, 1600s marrowe, 1600s– marrow, 1800s– marra, 1800s– marrah, 1800s– marrer, 1800s– marro, 1800s– marry, 1900s– marruh, 1900s– moro, 1900s– moroo, 1900s– morra; Scottish pre-1700 mairow, pre-1700 marou, pre-1700 marow, pre-1700 marowe, pre-1700 marrau, pre-1700 marro, pre-1700 marrou, pre-1700 merrow, pre-1700 1700s– marrow, pre-1700 1700s– morrow, pre-1700 1900s– marraw, 1800s– marra, 1900s– marrae, 1900s– morro, 1900s– morroo; also Scottish (chiefly in sense 4) 1700s– marrows, 1900s– marros, 1900s– marus, 2000s– marra's.
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a borrowing from early Scandinavian.
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps < early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic margr , Icelandic margur ) friendly, communicative, many (see many adj., pron., n., and adv.). Compare marrow v. (attested slightly earlier, although probably derived from the present word in spite of the apparent chronology).The word seems to appear earlier in Middle English surnames (although here adjectival use is possible if derived from the early Scandinavian word):c1208 in P. H. Reaney & R. M. Wilson Dict. Eng. Surnames (1991) s.v. Marrow John Marwe.1276 in P. H. Reaney & R. M. Wilson Dict. Eng. Surnames (1991) s.v. Marrow Geoffrey le Marewe.1290 Close Rolls Edward I 133 Osbert le Margh. A suggested derivation < Old English mearu merrow adj., involves a larger semantic leap, and is therefore probably not to be preferred to the above explanation. The derivation asserted in quot. 1656 at sense 1b is improbable.
Now English regional (chiefly northern), Irish English (northern), and Scottish.
I. A companion, partner.
1.
a. A companion, a friend; a fellow worker, a partner (cf. mate n.2 1a). Formerly also: †an accomplice (obsolete).
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society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a companion or associate > [noun]
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maat1900
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stable-mate1941
bredda1969
Ndugu1973
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 327 Marwe, or felawe yn trauayle, socius, compar.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1897–1973) 130 (MED) Com coll and his maroo, Thay will nyp vs full naroo.
a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Paddock & Mouse l. 2933 in Poems (1981) 109 Better but stryfe to leif allane in le Than to be matchit with ane wickit marrow.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vi. ix. 9 Bot sone hym warnis Sibilla..His trew marrow [L. comes].
1561 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 159 That nane of thame speik nor commune of ony mater nor round with his marrow.
1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 16 Yet chopping & changing, I cannot commend: with knaue & hys marrow, for feare of ill end.
1577 J. Grange Golden Aphroditis sig. Fiiiv Forsakyng his marroll [i.e. his partner in a dance].
a1585 P. Hume Flyting with Montgomerie (Tullibardine) 823 in G. Stevenson Poems A. Montgomerie (1910) 188 Buttrie bag..thow will wag with the morrowis.
a1637 B. Jonson Masque of Gypsies 79* in tr. Horace Art of Poetry (1640) Oh My deare Marrowes.
1645 S. Rutherford Tryal & Triumph of Faith xxiii. 265 Faith with love cannot endure a morrow.
?a1800 in R. Gilchrist Coll. Orig. Songs (1824) 11 So P.D. and his marrow were e'en pawk'd ashore.
1822 J. Galt Sir Andrew Wylie I. v. 37 It was nae a right thing o' us to be marrows in ony sic trade wi' cripple Janet.
1843 J. Hardy in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 No. 11. 54 Only two individuals play, but they can have an indefinite number of marrows or sidesmen.
1848 Eng. & Foreign Mining Gloss. (Newcastle Terms) 124 Marrow, a partner.
1893 H. Pease Borderland Stud. 36 Gravely he consulted with his ‘marrow’ (mate) who ‘trigged’ for him.., carefully noted the indicated line.
1935 A. J. Cronin Stars look Down i. ii. 20 His dad had gone with the marrows in his set.
1935 A. J. Cronin Stars look Down i. xxii. 205 Jack Reedy..and his marrow, Cha Leeming, worked their shift in the Scupper Flats.
1974 P. Wright Lang. Brit. Industry ix. 75 They are his pals, mates, marrers (the Geordie word).
1986 Lakeland Dial. Sept. 31 Is thee an' me marras, than? she ax't.
1989 Vintage Roadscene Mar.–May 50/2 Bill was a real old ‘Wigunner’, taciturn, clog-wearing and called all and sundry ‘marruh’ which was Wigan for friend.
2017 @craigy0unger_ 31 Mar. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Roll on Easter Sunday for pints in Newcastle with my marras.
†b. A fellow, a rogue. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [noun] > rogue, knave, or rascal
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hoor1965
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Marrow (Fr. marauld), a fellow, a knave, or Rascal.
†2. A husband or wife (cf. half marrow n. 1); a lover. Also (occasionally) in extended use, of an animal. Obsolete.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > [noun] > spouse, consort, or partner
ferec975
matchOE
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marrow1554
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half-marrow1637
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other half1667
helpmate1715
spousie1735
life companion1763
worse half1783
life partner1809
domestic partner1815
ball and chain1921
lover1969
1554 D. Lindsay Dialog Experience & Courteour 2665 in Wks. (1931) I. 278 Mony came with thare marrowis for to meit, Committand, thare, fowll fornicatioun.
1578 J. Rolland Seuin Seages 63 Waryit [read Maryit] woman that ay castis thy Ingyne Thy awin marrow euer to put to pyne.
1583 R. Greene Mamillia ii. f. 16v The Foxe seeing his marrow almost kilde with the dogges, is a foole, if he take not squat.
1632 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. 97 Christ's fair Bride, a marrow dear to Him.
1721 A. Ramsay Mary Scot iii When Mary Scot's become my marrow, We'll make a paradise on Yarrow.
1748 W. Hamilton Braes of Yarrow in Poems 46 Busk ye, busk ye, my bony bony bride, Busk ye, busk ye, my winsome marrow.
1817 W. Scott Rob Roy III. viii. 234 I hae been misdoubting your cousin Rashleigh since ever he saw that he wasna to get Die Vernon for his marrow.
1826 R. Wilbraham Attempt Gloss. Cheshire (ed. 2) App. 105 The robin and wren Are God's cock and hen, The martin and swallow Are God's mate and marrow.
1846 W. Cross Disruption xx. 215 Folks are beginning to speak o' us already as marrows.
1896 S. R. Crockett Grey Man i Him that was your marrow and lies now in his resting grave.
1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 217/2 Marrow,..a husband or wife, a spouse.
II. One of a pair; a match, an equal.
3. A thing which makes a pair with another; a counterpart, a twin.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > correlation > [noun] > a complement or counterpart
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complement1827
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opposite number1874
oppo1932
1516 Rec. Dumfries Burgh Court in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue f. 7v, (at cited words) A curschaw..of the quhilkis schew schow the marow in plane curt.
1616 Edinb. Test. XLIX. f. 83, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) Ane silver coupe..quhilkis is the marrow of the former coup.
1673 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 31 A pair of gloves or shooes are not marrows, i.e. fellows.
1681 S. Colvil Mock Poem i. 6 Some had Bows, but wanted Arrows, Some had Pistols without Marrows.
1737 A. Ramsay Coll. Scots Prov. 84 Your een's no marrows.
1787 J. Beattie Scoticisms 16 My buckles are not marrows.
1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 108 Marrows, pairs to match; fellows or equals.
1889 J. M. Barrie Window in Thrums xv. 138 Wearin' a pair o' boots 'at wisna marrows!
1899 Shetland News 29 Apr. 7/3 My een is mebbie no morrows.
1933 J. Gray Lowrie 22 Olie..med a new sweerie ta Willa oot o' teck-wid… Onywye he wis bune tinkin' apo Kirsie's guidness ta his bairns, an' med een da very marrows ta her tu.
1988 G. Lamb Orkney Wordbk. at Marros A farmer might have two cattle: one the marros o the other.
1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 217/2 Marrow,..one of a matching pair (of shoes, etc.).
4.
a. A person's equal or like; one's match in a contest. Also (Scottish) in plural. Formerly also gen.: †an opponent (obsolete).
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c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) xx. 137 Iulius vald nocht hef ane marrou in rome, and pompeus vald nocht hef ane superior.
1568 D. Lindsay Justing Watsoun & Bour 43 in Wks. (1931) I. 115 From tyme with speiris none could his marrow meit.
a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. in Wks. (1846) I. 89 Thare did everie man reaconter his marrow.
a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 174 He contit no lord to be marrow to him.
a1600 (?c1535) tr. H. Boece Hist. Scotl. (Mar Lodge) (1946) i. iii. f. 37 Nowthir suffering marrois nor superiouris.
1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. 300 You have many marrows.
a1709 J. Fraser Chrons. Frasers (1905) 136 They came to..fighting hand to fist, that hardly was any found without his mate and marrow to counter him.
1789 D. Davidson Thoughts Seasons 164 Good Ralph o' Titherbore, an Slacks—Their marrows there are few.
1896 ‘I. Maclaren’ Kate Carnegie 212 Ay, ye may traivel the warld ower or ye see his marrow.
1920 A. Dodds Songs of Fields 6 And as for plooin', I've ne'er seen His marrae in a field sin' syne.
1979 J. J. Graham Shetland Dict. at Morro For handlin a boat der wisna his morro ida hale neebrid.
1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 217/2 Marrow,..a match, an equal.
b. A thing's equal or like. Also (Scottish) in plural.
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1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 46 The toune..standes in sa pleisand a place, that it hes na marrow.
?1690 N. Burne Leader-Haughs & Yarow (single sheet) One House there stands on Leader side..Men passing by, do often say In South it has no marrow.
1891 J. M. Barrie Little Minister II. xv. 21 Sam'l Fairweather has the marrows o't on his top coat.
1929 in A. W. Johnston & A. Johnston Old-lore Misc. IX. ii. 76 Sheu waas da Beuk o' Black Airts, jeust da morroo o' whit 'e gaed till da witches.
1953 Banffshire Jrnl. 13 Oct. in Sc. National Dict. (at cited word) A beach that there's nae the marrows o' alang the hale Firth.
1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 217/2 Marrow,..a match, an equal.
2009 R. Adam Rhymes of Weary Roadman 14 They'd nivver seen the marra's o't Since Januar' '43.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

marrowadj.

Brit. /ˈmarəʊ/, U.S. /ˈmɛroʊ/
Forms: English regional (northern) 1800s– marrah, 1800s– marro, 1800s– marrow; Scottish pre-1700 marrow.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: marrow n.2
Etymology: < marrow n.2
Now English regional (chiefly northern).
Resembling something of the same kind; similar, corresponding, equal.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [adjective]
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likeOE
anlikeOE
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alike as a row of pins1785
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Siamese1833
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lak1881
sorty1885
homoeomorphic1902
homogenized1958
1585 in T. Thomson Coll. Inventories Royal Wardrobe (1815) 320 I ressavit of the marrow garnissing of thir fourtene pece thre chattonis, quhilk makis xvii in the haill.
1861 E. Waugh Birtle Carter's Tale 21 Aw never sprad my e'en upo' th' marrow trick to this!
1892 J. Hartley Grimes' Visit to Queen 112 It's just marro to one at Hebsabah won.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

marrowv.

Brit. /ˈmarəʊ/, U.S. /ˈmɛroʊ/, Scottish English /ˈmarə/, Irish English /ˈmæroʊ/, /ˈmærə/
Forms: English regional (northern) 1700s– marrow, 1800s– marra; Scottish pre-1700 marow, pre-1700 marrou, pre-1700 marwyt (past participle), pre-1700 1700s– marrow, 1900s– marra, 1900s– marraw; Irish English 1800s– marrow.
Origin: Probably formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: marrow n.2
Etymology: Probably < marrow n.2 (although attested slightly earlier).
Scottish, Irish English, and English regional (northern).
1.
a. transitive. To join, associate; to bring together, pair; to find a match for. Also reflexive.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > join (together) [verb (transitive)]
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fayOE
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knit1578
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withjoina1627
league1645
contignate1651
to bring on1691
splice1803
pan1884
suture1886
c1400 Lawys of Schippis (Bute) c. 12 A maystyr of a schip hyris his men..and sum of his men be marwyt wyth the chepman and wyth the maystyr.
1488 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1869) I. 55 Sic a burges bot na vther persoun marrow him with ane maister of substance [etc.].
1542 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1814) II. 414/2 Ane to be put and marrowit to þaim by my lord gouernour at his plesoure.
a1627 W. Fowler tr. Petrarch Triumphs in Wks. (1914) I. 97 The morning starr..Who willinglie dois marrow hir with all his light & flame.
1658 J. Durham Comm. Bk. Revelation 747 Here..a thousand bodies..yet..all are put to their own masters, none are wrong marrowed.
1823 J. Galt Entail I. xvii. 132 Charlie Walkinshaw and Bell Fatherlans were a couple marrowed by their Maker.
1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Aa've tried ti marrow the colour.
1903 Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 43/1 [N. Westmorland] They marrowed t'nags that year ta mow.
b. intransitive. To be a partner or associate, to team up or get together (with); to enter into a relationship (frequently marriage) with; to be united in matrimony.
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society > society and the community > social relations > co-operation > co-operate [verb (intransitive)] > form team
marrow1535
team1901
1535 MS Rec. Aberdeen XVI in Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (1880) III. 237/1 To marrow and nychtbour with wtheris.
1659 Minute Bk. Dumfries Fleshers 5 May in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Mar(r)ow Incaice that any frieman marrow or be pairtiner with any vnfrieman.
c1660 S. Rutherford Christ & Doves 4 The meek spouse of Christ will not marrow with a malicious house.
1842 J. Aiton Clerical Econ. iii. 117 Saunders Heavyside, with whom he marrows.
1844 W. Thom Rhymes & Recoll. 53 Hae ye fausely strayed 'mang misty groves, Wi' ice-wreathed maidens to marrow.
1851 A. Maclagan Poems 280 He's wise wha marrows wi' content, Though in a rustic biel'.
1920 G. P. Dunbar Guff o' Peat Reek 44 An' he said, ‘Bonnie lass, will ye marra wi' me.’
1931–3 Trans. Dumfries & Galloway Nat. Hist. & Antiquarian Soc. 191 Four tenants ‘marrowing’ together combined their beast- and horse-power for the plough.
†2. transitive. To be a companion to; to marry. Obsolete.
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society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a companion or associate > accompany or associate with [verb (transitive)] > associate in companionship
marrow1520
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1520–1 in J. Imrie et al. Burgh Court Bk. Selkirk (1960) 36 That scho suld geiff ane par of schetis..to his frend in mariage quham David Cadȝow suld marow.
1721 A. Ramsay Mary Scot i Did you there see me mark'd to marrow Mary Scot the flow'r of Yarrow?
a1788 Charming Nancy in Burns' Wks. (1800) II. 152 Thou shalt not sit single, but by a clear ingle, I'll marrow thee, Nancy, when thou art my ain.
3. transitive. To resemble, to be equal or equivalent to; to rival. Also in passive: to compete as an equal.
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society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > compete or rival [verb (intransitive)]
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to try (also play, prove, etc.) masteriesa1393
strive?c1450
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to try (a) conclusion1601
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1567 R. Sempill in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. 67 In fechting war þow neuir so fers, Thow salbe marrowit and I may.
1586 A. Montgomerie Poems (Maitland Quarto) (2000) I. 279 Venus..Wald have preferrit this paragon, As marrowit, but matche, most meit The goldin ball to bruik alone.
1785 W. Hutton Bran New Wark 6 On the sabbath we say aur prayers, and the rest o'th week ya day marrows another.
1869 Keelmin's Comic Annewal 3 A lad..thit cud marra the interprysin' fishin'-gad ways o' the famis man.
1877 P. Burn Poems (1885) 294 A beild I hae that marrows thy ain.
1911 Rymour Club Misc. I. 206 A January haddock and a February hen, Art no' to be marrowed in the ither months ten.
1953 Mearns Leader 25 Sept. 3/2 For there's a flavour or guff aboot it that nae ither jam or jeely aither can marraw.
2009 R. Adam Rhymes of Weary Roadman 10 There's naething tae marra the open road.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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