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verb

March v. t. 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. "March them again in fair array."

March v. i. To border; to be contiguous; to lie side by side. (Obs.) "That was in a strange land Which marcheth upon Chimerie."

To march with, to have the same boundary for a greater or less distance; said of an estate.

March v. i. (past & past part. marched; pres. part. marching)

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

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

adjective

Marching adj. A. & n., fr. March, v.

Marching money (Mil.), the additional pay of officer or soldier when his regiment is marching.

In marching order (Mil.), equipped for a march.

Marching regiment. (Mil.)

(a)

A regiment in active service.

(b)

In England, a regiment liable to be ordered into other quarters, at home or abroad; a regiment of the line.

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"Marching" Quotes from Famous Books

... know why, and he has never since known why, but the girls then knew why, and the women seem to know now. He was asked to be one of the boys who held the banner-tassels, and he felt this a great compliment somehow, though he was so young that he had afterwards only the vaguest remembrance of marching in the procession, and going to a raw and chilly grove somewhere, and having untimely lemonade and cake. Yet these might have been the associations of ...

— A Boy's Town • W. D. Howells

... myriad hissing, rustling and squawking noises of a tropic night, he heard the unmistakable 'chuff-chuff-chuff' of a marching column of barefoot men. He made out a single-file column moving rapidly across a field, off the road. He made out the silhouetes of shouldered rifles. Far off, under a yellow street lamp, he glimpsed a flash of a red shirt. That was ...

— Plotting in Pirate Seas • Francis Rolt-Wheeler

... should be liable to corporal punishment for only two offences: first, mutiny, or gross insubordination; second, plunder or violence while the regiment or force to which the prisoner belongs is in the field or marching. The same enactment might declare the soldiers of our native army liable to the same punishments for the same offences. Such an enactment would excite no discontent among our native soldiery; on the contrary, it would be applauded as just and ...

— Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official • William Sleeman

... attitude to enrage the woman suffragist. She will respect opposition. Careless indifference she cannot brook. Grandma opened upon him and battered him to a pulpy mass. Within the half hour he was supinely promising to remind her to give him a badge before he left; and there was further talk of his marching at the next parade as a member of the Men's League for Woman's Suffrage, or, at the very least, in the column of ...

— Bunker Bean • Harry Leon Wilson

... there, was so deceived by their protestations that he the next morning, taking another man with him, rode toward the fort to ascertain the facts. He had not advanced far before he met the enemy, several hundred in number, marching to the assault. The savages immediately fired upon him. His companion was instantly shot, and several bullets passed through his body. He was a man of Herculean strength and vigor, and, though mortally ...

— King Philip - Makers of History • John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

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